Capel Family History
Capel Name Meaning
French (Normandy and Picardy): from a dialect variant of Old
French chape ‘hooded cloak’, ‘cape’, ‘hat’ (see Cape
2).probably a Castilianized form of Catalan Capell.Dutch: metonymic occupational name from Middle Dutch capeel
‘hood’, ‘headgear’.English: variant of Chappell ‘chapel’,
from a Norman form with hard c-, applied as a topographic or
occupational name, or as a habitational name for someone from any of
several minor places named with this word, such as Capel in Surrey,
Capel le Ferne in Kent, or Capel St. Andrew and Capel St. Mary in
Suffolk.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Capel
Name Distribution of Capel Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Capel families
 20 - 37  7 - 19 |
 1 - 6  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Capel families
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126 - 249 43 - 125 |
1 - 42 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Capel families
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3 - 4 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Capel census records
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Capel Family Origin
Capel Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Capel
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Capel Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Capel census records
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Capel Civil War Service Records
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