Cable Family History
Cable Name Meaning
English: metonymic occupational name for a maker of rope,
especially the type of stout rope used in maritime applications, from
Anglo-Norman French cable ‘cable’ (Late Latin capulum
‘halter’, of Arabic origin, but associated by folk etymology with
Latin capere ‘to seize’).English: possibly from an Old
English personal name, Ceadbeald.English: metonymic
occupational name for a horseman, from Middle English cabal
‘horse’.From German Göbel (see
Goebel), assimilated to the English name.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Cable
Name Distribution of Cable Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Cable families
 190 - 377  64 - 189 |
 1 - 63  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Cable families
|
34 - 65 12 - 33 |
1 - 11 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Cable Family Origin
Cable Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Cable Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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