Farewell Family History
Farewell Name Meaning
variant of Farwell.according to Reaney the
name ‘appears frequently in Suffolk from 1275 to 1417, always without
a preposition, and is, no doubt, a phrase name, Fare
well!’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Farewell
Name Distribution of Farewell Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Farewell families
 13 - 23  5 - 12 |
 1 - 4  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Farewell families
|
8 - 14 3 - 7 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Farewell census records
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Farewell Family Origin
Farewell Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Farewell
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Farewell Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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Farewell Civil War Service Records
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