Last name: STOWELL
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STOWELL : This last name is indexed 30,947 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
STOWELL : English: habitational name from Stowell (Somerset) Stowell (Gloucestershire) East and West Stowell in Wilcot (Wiltshire) or Stawell (Somerset) all named with Old English stān ‘stone rock’ + wella ‘well spring stream’. The surname was taken to the Isle of Man by 1511 from whence it migrated to Lancashire and Yorkshire.
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