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The kassel Surname

kassel Name Meaning and History

German: habitational name from a place of this name in northeastern Hesse, so named from Frankish castella, cassela ‘fortification’, a military term from Late Latin castellum ‘fortified position’, ‘fort’, or a topographic name from the same word.

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The kassel name in History

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Distribution of kassel Families in the US in 1920
Number of kassel families
 33-64
 12-32		 1-11
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Obit: Lawrence Kassel of Iowa (1924-2005) pbbut 0
Kusselewsky, 1870's? jkassel127 0
Kessell Cornwall marilyn 1
Kassel (Kassell), Horace Byron jeanewingfamily 0
Kassel from Alsace-Lorraine klschack 1
Jules Kassel galemunc86335861572 6
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KASSEL Hannah .JPG t42HebrewRest_TarCoTX 0
John Jacob Kassell, Sr. dtonneman 0
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