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Where did the English Jowers family come from? What is the English Jowers family crest and coat of arms? When did the Jowers family first arrive in the United States? Where did the various branches of the family go? What is the Jowers family history?The history of the Jowers name began with the ancient Anglo-Saxon tribes of Britain. The name is derived from the baptismal name Joel. The surname Jowers referred to the son of Joel which belongs to the category of patronymic surnames. In Old English, patronyms were formed by adding a variety of suffixes to personal names, which changed over time and from place to place. For example, after the Norman Conquest, sunu and sune, which meant son, were the most common patronymic suffixes. In the 12th and 13th centuries, the most common patronymic names included the word filius, which meant son. By the 14th century, the suffix son had replaced these earlier versions. Surnames that were formed with filius or son were more common in the north of England and it was here that the number of individuals without surnames was greatest at this time.
Sound was what guided spelling in the essentially pre-literate Middle Ages, so one person's name was often recorded under several variations during a single lifetime. Also, before the advent of the printing press and the first dictionaries, the English language was not standardized. Therefore, spelling variations were common, even among the names of the most literate people. Known variations of the Jowers family name include Jewell, Jewall, Jule, Joel, Jouel and others.
This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Jowers research. Another 99 words(7 lines of text) covering the years 1560, 1559, 1522 and 1571 are included under the topic Early Jowers History in all our PDF Extended History products.
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For political, religious, and economic reasons, thousands of English families boarded ships for Ireland, the Canadas, the America colonies, and many of smaller tropical colonies in the hope of finding better lives abroad. Although the passage on the cramped, dank ships caused many to arrive in the New World diseased and starving, those families that survived the trip often went on to make valuable contributions to those new societies to which they arrived. Early immigrants bearing the Jowers surname or a spelling variation of the name include : Thomas and Walter Jewell settled in Virginia in 1635; Robert Jewell settled in Virginia in 1637; Thomas Jewell settled in Boston Massachusetts in 1635..
The Jowers Family Crest was acquired from the Houseofnames.com archives. The Jowers Family Crest was drawn according to heraldic standards based on published blazons. We generally include the oldest published family crest once associated with each surname.
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