Seal Family History
Seal Name Meaning
English: variant of Sale 1.English: metonymic
occupational name for a maker of seals or signet rings, from Middle
English, Old French seel ‘seal’ (Latin sigillum).English: metonymic occupational name for a maker of saddles, from
Old French seele ‘saddle’.English: nickname for a plump or
ungainly person, from Middle English sele ‘seal’ (the aquatic
mammal).Americanized form (translation) of Jewish Siegel.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Seal
Name Distribution of Seal Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Seal families
 50 - 98  17 - 49 |
 1 - 16  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Seal families
|
201 - 399 68 - 200 |
1 - 67 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Seal families
|
4 - 5 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Seal census records
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Seal Family Origin
Seal Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Seal
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An unusually short lifespan might indicate that your ancestors lived in harsh conditions.
A short lifespan might also indicate health problems that were once prevalent in
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Seal Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Seal census records
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Seal Civil War Service Records
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