Bagwell Family History
- Bagwell Name Meaning
- English: of uncertain origin. It may be a variant of Backwell, a habitational name from Backwell in Somerset, named with Old English bæc ‘ridge’ + wella ‘spring’, ‘stream’, or possibly from Bakewell in Derbyshire (see Bakewell). Alternatively, it may be from a minor place named with an unattested Old English word, bagga ‘ badger’ + wella ‘spring’, ‘stream’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 419,648 Historical Documents with Bagwell on Ancestry
- 68,337 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 38,538 Census and Voter Lists
- 11,544 Military Records
- 1,634 Immigration Records
- 299,595 Member Trees
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Number of Bagwell families
 79 - 156  27 - 78 |
 1 - 26  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Bagwell families
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36 - 70 13 - 35 |
1 - 12 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Bagwell census records
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
Bagwell census records
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- All Bagwell
- 315
- Confederate
- 272
- Union
- 43
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