When Alice Rowberry was born on 6 August 1862, in Milton, Morgan, Utah, United States, her father, John Rowberry Jr, was 38 and her mother, Harriet Frances Gollaher, was 23. She married Samuel Edwin Woolley on 6 May 1885, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. She immigrated to United States in 1894 and lived in Laie, Oahu, Hawaii, United States in 1910 and Grantsville, Tooele, Utah, United States in 1920. She died on 3 December 1943, in Cedar City, Iron, Utah, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Grantsville, Tooele, Utah, United States.
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English (Herefordshire and Worcestershire): habitational name theoretically from any of various places called with Old English rūh ‘rough’ + beorg ‘hill, mound’, such as Roborough (Devon), Rowberrow (Somerset), Ruborough Hill (Somerset), and Rowborough (Isle of Wight), but in the West Midlands the surname is almost certainly from Rowberry Court (in Bodenham, Herefordshire) and through family migration is probably also the source of Rubery in Cornwall and Ro(w)bery in Essex.
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