Pell Family History
Pell Name Meaning
English: from the Middle English personal name Pell, a
pet form of Peter.English: metonymic occupational name for
a dealer in furs, from Middle English, Old French pel
‘skin’.English: variant of Pill 1.German:
variant of Pelle or, in some instances, a variant of
Pfell, the South German form of this name, from Middle High
German phelle(e) ‘purple silk cloth’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Pell Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Pell families
 60 - 117  21 - 59 |
 1 - 20  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Pell families
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166 - 329 56 - 165 |
1 - 55 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Pell families
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3 - 4 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Pell Family Origin
Pell Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Pell
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Pell Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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