Quill Family History
Quill Name Meaning
Irish, Scottish, and Manx: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic
Ó Cuill ‘descendant of Coll’, or of Mac Cuill
‘son of Coll’, a personal name probably based on coll
‘hazel tree’. In Ireland this is the name of a Munster family and is
sometimes translated as Woods.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Quill
Name Distribution of Quill Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Quill families
 37 - 71  13 - 36 |
 1 - 12  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Quill families
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25 - 48 9 - 24 |
1 - 8 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Quill families
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7 - 12 3 - 6 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Quill census records
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Quill Family Origin
Quill Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Quill
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Quill Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Quill census records
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Quill Civil War Service Records
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