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blackwell Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from any of various places, for example in Cumbria, Derbyshire, County Durham, Warwickshire, and Worcestershire, named Blackwell, from Old English blæc ‘black’, ‘dark’ + wæll(a), well(a) ‘spring’, ‘stream’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of blackwell Families in the US in 1920
Number of blackwell families
 210-417
 71-209		 1-70
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Blackwells in Meigs TN, Hickory MO and in Indian Terr., OK smithdr49 6
BLACKWELL, GIBSON, CRENSHAW , THOMSON MaryGenePage 1
BLACKWELL, Thomas and Elizabeth Gibson-VA Dawnna 1
English Blackwells ken blackwell 17
Leslie Blackwell born 1909 or 1910 kate33_1 0
William George Blackwell kate33_1 0
BLACKWELL OF SALISBURY NC CAROLYN BLACKWELL FOWLER 1
james blackwell,buncombe n.c. 1800s dddavis 28
William Blackwell lynmott 0
Brice M. G. Blackwell 3daus 2
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