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boswell Name Meaning and History

Scottish (of Norman origin): habitational name from Beuzeville in Seine Maritime, France, named with Old French Beuze (a personal name probably of Germanic origin) + ville ‘settlement’. The final element has been altered as a result of association with the common place name ending -well ‘spring’, ‘stream’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of boswell Families in the US in 1920
Number of boswell families
 81-159
 28-80		 1-27
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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