Boswell Family History
Boswell Name Meaning
Scottish (of Norman origin): habitational name from Beuzeville in
Seine Maritime, France, named with Old French Beuze (a personal
name probably of Germanic origin) + ville ‘settlement’. The
final element has been altered as a result of association with the
common place name ending -well ‘spring’, ‘stream’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Boswell
Name Distribution of Boswell Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Boswell families
 203 - 403  68 - 202 |
 1 - 67  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Boswell families
|
35 - 68 12 - 34 |
1 - 11 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Boswell census records
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Boswell Family Origin
Boswell Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Boswell Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Boswell Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Boswell census records
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Military Service by Boswell
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