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The cornwell Surname

cornwell Name Meaning and History

  1. habitational name from Cornwell in Oxfordshire, named from Old English corn, a metathesized form of cron, cran ‘crane’ + well(a) ‘spring’, ‘stream’.
  2. variant of Cornwall.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of cornwell Families in the US in 1920
Number of cornwell families
 98-193
 33-97		 1-32
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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