Hamel Family History
Hamel Name Meaning
English, Scottish, and Irish: variant spelling of
Hamill.French: topographic name for someone who lived and
worked at an outlying farm dependent on the main village, Old French
hamel (a diminutive from a Germanic element cognate with Old
English ham ‘homestead’).German and Jewish
(Ashkenazic): habitational name from the city of Hamlin, German
Hameln, Yiddish Haml, where the Hamel river empties into
the Weser. The name of the river probably derives from the Germanic
element ham ‘water meadow’.Dutch: metonymic
occupational name for a shepherd, from Middle Dutch hamel
‘wether’, ‘castrated ram’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Hamel
Name Distribution of Hamel Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Hamel families
 125 - 248  42 - 124 |
 1 - 41  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Hamel families
|
14 - 26 5 - 13 |
1 - 4 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Hamel families
|
7 - 11 3 - 6 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Hamel census records
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Hamel Family Origin
Hamel Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Hamel
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Hamel Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Hamel census records
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Hamel Civil War Service Records
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