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wedel Name Meaning and History

  1. habitational name from any of various places called Wedel or Wedell, all in northern Germany.
  2. (in northwestern Germany) topographic name for someone who lived in a forest, from Middle Low German wede ‘wood’, ‘forest’ + lo ‘brush’, ‘wood’.

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

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Distribution of wedel Families in the US in 1920
Number of wedel families
 26-49
 9-25		 1-8
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 33 - Messages: 65
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Looking for descendents of Wilbur Wedel chrysanthi6 0
Grandfather ginikivi 0
Wedel ginikivi 0
George Wedel elwood_fritter 0
Wedel WGF 4
Heinrich WEDEL LBerndt7931 11
Re: Heinrich Wedel (1872-????) Gilbert Schroeter 0
Vern WEDEL , 1915 - 2006, obit LorraineGilmer02 0
BREITUNGEN (Altenbreitungen, Frauenbreitungen, Herrenbreitungen) SkipS32 2
Obit - WEDEL, Cleo skdulcich 0
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