Snell Family History
Snell Name Meaning
English: nickname for a brisk or active person, from Middle English
snell ‘quick’, ‘lively’, in part also representing a survival
of the Old English personal name Snell or the cognate Old Norse
Snjallr.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Snell
Name Distribution of Snell Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Snell families
 222 - 441  75 - 221 |
 1 - 74  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Snell families
|
591 - 1,179 198 - 590 |
1 - 197 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Snell families
|
10 - 17 4 - 9 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Snell census records
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Snell Family Origin
Snell Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Snell
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Snell Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Snell census records
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Snell Civil War Service Records
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