Blackwell Family History
Blackwell Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places, for example
in Cumbria, Derbyshire, County Durham, Warwickshire, and
Worcestershire, named Blackwell, from Old English blæc
‘black’, ‘dark’ + wæll(a), well(a) ‘spring’,
‘stream’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Blackwell
Name Distribution of Blackwell Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Blackwell families
 490 - 978  164 - 489 |
 1 - 163  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Blackwell families
|
19 - 35 7 - 18 |
1 - 6 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Blackwell census records
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Blackwell Family Origin
Blackwell Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Blackwell Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Blackwell census records
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Military Service by Blackwell
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