When George Pennant Howell was born on 29 December 1930, in Rochester, Olmsted, Minnesota, United States, his father, Llewelyn Pennant Howell, was 26 and his mother, Edna Irene Carlblom, was 29. He lived in Rochester Township, Olmsted, Minnesota, United States in 1950. He died on 29 December 2008, in Burnsville, Dakota, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 78.
Welsh and English: in the Welsh border counties, from the Welsh male personal name Hywel ‘eminent’, popular since the Middle Ages particularly in honor of the great 10th-century law-giving Welsh king. The name may also arise from the Breton personal name Houuel, Huwel, Huwal, Howael, cognate with the Welsh name. Bretons were especially numerous in the eastern counties of England. See Powell .
English: perhaps from a Middle English personal name Huwel (spelled Howel), a shortening of Huwelot or Huelin (see Hewlett and Huling ), both pet forms of Middle English Huw (see Hugh ).
English: habitational name from Howell (Lincolnshire), from an uncertain initial element + Old English wella ‘well, spring, stream’.
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