When Ruth Annie Dunwell was born on 21 June 1884, in Stanningley, Yorkshire, England, her father, David Dunwell, was 38 and her mother, Elizabeth Ann, was 36. She married Seth Pontefract on 26 December 1914, in Pudsey, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. She lived in Bramley, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom for about 10 years. She died in September 1957, in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 73.
English:
topographic or habitational name from Middle English don, dun(ne) ‘dark’ + wel(le) ‘water source, stream’. The name may be topographic, denoting someone who lived ‘(by the) dark stream’, or a habitational name from a place so named, such as Dunwell in Ugborough (Devon). It is likely that many instances of the surname derive from a lost or as yet unidentified place in Yorkshire.
from a Middle English continuation of the Old English personal name Dūnweald, from dūn ‘hill’ + weald ‘power’.
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