1) English surname 
Dowdall is an Irish surname. The earliest forms of spelling were: Dowdell, Dowdale and Dowdle. Dowdall was first used as a surname in Yorkshire, certainly by the time of the Norman conquest of England. The Irish Dowdalls came from Dovedale in Derbyshire. They settled in County Louth in the thirteenth century. ==Fifteenth century== ==Under the Tudo...