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hartwell Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from places in Buckinghamshire, Northamptonshire, and Staffordshire called Hartwell, from Old English heorot ‘stag’, ‘hart’ + wella ‘spring’, ‘stream’. In some cases the surname may have arisen from Hartwell in Hartfield, Sussex or Hartwell in Lamerton, Devon.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of hartwell Families in the US in 1920
Number of hartwell families
 103-204
 35-102
 1-34
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