Fell Family History
- Fell Name Meaning
- English (chiefly northern): topographic name for someone who lived by an area of high ground or by a prominent crag, from northern Middle English fell ‘high ground’, ‘rock’, ‘crag’ (Old Norse fjall, fell). English, German, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): metonymic occupational name for a furrier, from Middle English fell, Middle High German vel, or German Fell or Yiddish fel, all of which mean ‘skin’, ‘hide’, or ‘pelt’. Yiddish fel refers to untanned hide, in contrast to pelts ‘tanned hide’ (see Pilcher).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 688,463 Historical Documents with Fell on Ancestry
- 239,191 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 121,680 Census and Voter Lists
- 26,302 Military Records
- 13,681 Immigration Records
- 287,609 Member Trees
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Number of Fell families
 92 - 182  31 - 91 |
 1 - 30  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Fell families
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570 - 1,137 191 - 569 |
1 - 190 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Fell families
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24 - 45 9 - 23 |
1 - 8 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Fell 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
Fell census records
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- All Fell
- 243
- Confederate
- 32
- Union
- 211
from the Civil War Service Records
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