Capel Family History
Capel Name Meaning
French (Normandy and Picardy): from a dialect variant of Old
French chape ‘hooded cloak’, ‘cape’, ‘hat’ (see Cape
2).probably a Castilianized form of Catalan Capell.Dutch: metonymic occupational name from Middle Dutch capeel
‘hood’, ‘headgear’.English: variant of Chappell ‘chapel’,
from a Norman form with hard c-, applied as a topographic or
occupational name, or as a habitational name for someone from any of
several minor places named with this word, such as Capel in Surrey,
Capel le Ferne in Kent, or Capel St. Andrew and Capel St. Mary in
Suffolk.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Capel
Name Distribution of Capel Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Capel families
 126 - 249  43 - 125 |
 1 - 42  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Capel families
|
3 - 4 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Capel census records
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Capel Family Origin
Capel Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Capel Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Capel census records
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Military Service by Capel
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