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marchal Name Meaning and History

French: status name or occupational name from Old French maresc(h)al ‘marshal’. The term is of Germanic origin (from marah ‘horse’, ‘mare’ + scalc ‘servant’) and was originally applied to a man who looked after horses. In the Middle Ages it also came to be used on the one hand as an occupational name for a farrier, and on the other as a status name for an officer of state, in particular a member of a royal household with military responsibilities. Compare Marshall.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The marchal name in History

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Distribution of marchal Families in the US in 1920
Number of marchal families
 12-22
 5-11		 1-4
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 24 - Messages: 64
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Notes on Alsatian Origins of Marechal family eleom52 5
Marchal/Chaloupe families Mary Ann 0
Joseph C. & Anna Hartlage MARCHAL, Louisville, KY PHartlage 1
Marchal from Belgium Cynthia_T 2
marechal (marshall) family dragonfly6884 0
Joseph Marchal hohlhous 1
Marchal Kit_Matulich 2
Catherine Marchal JoshuaOsswald35 2
Albert Marchal JChemay 4
Marchal's from Darke County, Ohio area Mary Ann Mangen 8
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