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caswell Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from places in Dorset, Northamptonshire, and Somerset named Caswell, from Old English cærse ‘(water)cress’ + well(a) ‘spring’, ‘stream’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of caswell Families in the US in 1920
Number of caswell families
 138-273
 47-137
 1-46
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