Colwell Family History
Colwell Name Meaning
English: habitational name from places in Northumberland and Devon
named Colwell. The former is named with Old English col
‘(char)coal’ or col ‘cool’ + well(a) ‘spring’,
‘stream’; the latter has as the first element a Celtic river name,
Coly, apparently meaning ‘narrow’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Colwell Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Colwell families
 88 - 174  30 - 87 |
 1 - 29  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Colwell families
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78 - 154 27 - 77 |
1 - 26 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Colwell families
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3 - 4 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Colwell Family Origin
Colwell Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Colwell
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Colwell Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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