Waddell Family History
Waddell Name Meaning
Scottish: variant of Weddle.English: topographic
name for someone who lived at the hill where woad grew, from Old
English wad ‘woad’ + hyll ‘hill’, or a habitational
name from a place so named, as for example Woodhill, Wiltshire.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Waddell
Name Distribution of Waddell Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Waddell families
 107 - 212  36 - 106 |
 1 - 35  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Waddell families
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48 - 93 17 - 47 |
1 - 16 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Waddell families
|
671 - 1,339 224 - 670 |
1 - 223 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Waddell Family Origin
Waddell Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Waddell
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Waddell Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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