Bodell Family History
- Bodell Name Meaning
- English (Midlands): of uncertain origin; perhaps a variant of Beadle. Swedish: from bod ‘small hut’ + -ell, a frequent suffix of surnames, from the Latin adjectival ending -elius. Perhaps an altered spelling of German Bodelle, an occupational name for a beadle. Compare Bittel.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 64,021 Historical Documents with Bodell on Ancestry
- 20,476 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 11,073 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,599 Military Records
- 1,336 Immigration Records
- 29,537 Member Trees
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Number of Bodell families
 16 - 29  6 - 15 |
 1 - 5  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Bodell families
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31 - 60 11 - 30 |
1 - 10 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Bodell families
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4 - 5 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Bodell census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
Bodell census records
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- All Bodell
- 23
- Confederate
- 9
- Union
- 14
from the Civil War Service Records
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