Harwell Family History
Harwell Name Meaning
English: habitational name from places called Harwell in south
Oxfordshire (formerly part of Berkshire) and Nottinghamshire. The
former was named in Old English as ‘spring or stream by or from the
gray one’, from Hara ‘the gray’ (here referring to a certain
hill) + wella; while the latter was named from Old English
heore, h¯re ‘pleasant’ + wella ‘stream’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Harwell Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Harwell families
 79 - 156  27 - 78 |
 1 - 26  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Harwell families
|
20 - 37 7 - 19 |
1 - 6 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Harwell families
|
7 - 11 3 - 6 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Harwell Family Origin
Harwell Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Harwell
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Harwell Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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Harwell Civil War Service Records
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