The bucknell Surname
bucknell Name Meaning and History
English: habitational name from places called Bucknell, in
Oxfordshire and Shropshire, or Bucknall, in Lincolnshire and
Somerset. These are all named with the Old English byname Bucca
(see Buck) or Old English bucca ‘he-goat’ (with genitive
-n) + hyll ‘hill’ in the first two examples or
healh ‘nook’, ‘hollow’ in the latter two.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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| Bucknell, one brother to Canada, the other Australia | Sandra Hanson | 1 |
| Robert Eli Bucknell, Carpenter, b. c. 1849 in Budleigh Salterton |
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| relatives of Thomas Bucknell, a trumpeter who died Battle of Little Big Horn |
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| Bucknell family History Devon | Sarah Feaster | 3 |
| William of Bucknell Univ. | Ken Jones | 3 |
| Thomas Bucknell abt 1720 Crick Northamptonshire |
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| Ancestors of Sarah "Sally" Mays? |
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