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senecal Name Meaning and History

French (Sénécal): status name for a seneschal, an official in a large household who was responsible for overseeing day-to-day domestic arrangements, from Old French seneschal (of Germanic origin, composed of the elements sini ‘old’ + scalc ‘servant’). The seneschal of a royal or ducal household in the Middle Ages was a very powerful man indeed, often having control over the administration of justice, among other things. In some cases the surname may have originated as nickname for an officious man.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of senecal Families in the US in 1920
Number of senecal families
 39-76
 14-38
 1-13
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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