The gavel Surname
gavel Name Meaning and History
French (southwestern): metonymic occupational name for a harvester,
from javelle, a term for a sheaf of grain which was loosely
bound and left on the ground to ripen.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Threads: 28 - Messages: 144
| Thread | Author | Replies |
| Josephine Gavel b. 2-10-1892, Gavelton, NS |
 gingerleeparker
| 1 |
| John Gavel | Carl Raynard | 12 |
| the Gavel family tree |
bogavel
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| gavel/reuion/ 1987 | timothy s.gavel | 14 |
| John Conn in Gavelton | Barbara Buckley | 0 |
| John Hardy Gavel | Lorna Donaldson | 2 |
| Matthew Gavel | 0 | |
| Gavel (Gawel) Austrian?/Polish |
dgavel39
| 19 |
| no information | david hurst | 0 |
| Sophia | David Hurst | 2 |
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