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Quail Name Meaning
Irish and Scottish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac
Phóil (see McFall).Irish: variant of Quill
1.English: from Middle English quaille ‘quail’, a nickname
for a timorous, lecherous, or fat person, all qualities that were
ascribed to the bird.In one family this is an Americanized form
of the Ashkenazic Jewish ornamental surname Kvalvaser, meaning
‘spring water’ in Yiddish.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Quail
Name Distribution of Quail Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Quail families
 16 - 29  6 - 15 |
 1 - 5  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Quail families
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32 - 62 11 - 31 |
1 - 10 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Quail families
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27 - 51 10 - 26 |
1 - 9 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Quail census records
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Quail Family Origin
Quail Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Quail
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Quail Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Quail census records
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Quail Civil War Service Records
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