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greenwell Name Meaning and History

English (Northumberland): topographic name for someone who lived by a stream among lush pastures, from Middle English grene ‘green’ + welle ‘spring’, ‘stream’, or habitational name from a minor place so named.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the greenwell family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of greenwell Families in the US in 1920
Number of greenwell families
 120-238
 41-119		 1-40
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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