The schindel Surname
schindel Name Meaning and History
- German (southern and eastern) and Jewish (Ashkenazic): metonymic occupational name for someone who made or laid roof tiles, from Middle High German schindel, German Schindel ‘shingle’, ‘wooden tile’.
- South German: habitational name from places named Schindel or Schindeln in Baden.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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| CHRISTIAN SCHINDEL BORN IN CA 1863 ! | Kathy Fine-Saunders | 0 |
| Johan P.C. Schindel, born in Ca, Brewer by trade | Kathy Fine-Saunders | 0 |
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