Swedish: from an
unexplained first element, Ad- (which may represent a personal
name or place name beginning with Ad-), + -ell, a common
ending of Swedish surnames derived from the Latin adjectival ending
-elius.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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