Oswell Family History
- Oswell Name Meaning
- English: of uncertain origin, possibly a habitational name, of which the second element appears to be Old English well(a) ‘spring’, ‘creek’. The first element may be a short form of an Old English personal name containing the element os ‘god’ (see for example Oswald) or its Old Norse cognate ás (see Osborne). However, the earliest known bearer of the name was Roger Wyswall, who was admitted as a burgess of Shrewsbury in 1450. The English name is found in various forms, including Woosall and Wossald. Irish (Ulster): adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Ó hEodhusa ‘descendant of Eodhus’ (see Hussey).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 32,903 Historical Documents with Oswell on Ancestry
- 11,201 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 9,476 Census and Voter Lists
- 976 Military Records
- 906 Immigration Records
- 10,344 Member Trees
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Number of Oswell families
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from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
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- Confederate
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- Union
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