When Judith Kaye “Nanny” Mcdowell was born on 12 December 1943, her father, Martin Stallard Smith, was 34 and her mother, Marguerite S. "Petie" Breeden, was 24. She died on 21 September 2007, in Simpsonville, Shelby, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 63.
Scottish and Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Dubhghaill ‘son of Dubhghall’, a byname meaning ‘dark stranger’, used among the Gaels to distinguish the darker-haired Danes from fair-haired Norwegians. This is the usual Irish spelling of this name, while McDougall is the usual Scottish spelling. However, McDowall is also common in south west Scotland and a prominent Galloway family with this name first appear in the historical record in the late 13th century.
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