Dowdall Family Crest, Coat of Arms & Dowdall Name Origin

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Origin of the Name Dowdall

The Dowdall family history was found in the allfamilycrests.com archives. include Dowdell, Dowdill, Dovedale and Dowdle. Families of these names have been found in Ireland since the Anglo-Norman invasion of the twelfth century. The original family hailed from a Parish in Staffordshire and were named Dovedale. They integrated into Gaelic society and assumed the Gaelic name of Dubhdal which was later anglicized as Dowdall among other variants. The original territory of the sept was in Counties Dublin and Louth. A separate sept of O'Dubhdaleithe in County Cork also anglicized their name as Dowdall, as well as Dudley. A sept or clan was a collective term describing a group of persons whose immediate ancestors bore a common surname and inhabited the same territory. A most noteworthy bearer of the name was George Dowdall, Archbishop of Armagh from 1543 to 1558. A William Dowdall joined with the Irish revolutionary Robert Emmet and served with great distinction with the Irish Legion, which was a French army battalion formed in the year 1803 with the intention of liberating Ireland .