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The bignell Surname

bignell Name Meaning and History

  1. habitational name from Bignell near Bicester, Oxfordshire, so named with an Old English personal name Bicga + Old English hyll ‘hill’.
  2. variant of Bicknell.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The bignell name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the bignell family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of bignell Families in the US in 1920
Number of bignell families
 10-17
 4-9		 1-3
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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