Cornell Family History
Cornell Name Meaning
Americanized form of any of the numerous Continental European
surnames derived from Latin Cornelius (see Cornelius),
for example French Corneille or German Kornel.Swedish: Latinized form of Horn, meaning ‘horn’; probably a
soldier’s name.English: reduced form of Cornwell or
of Cornhill, a habitational name from a place in Northumberland
named Cornhill, from Old English corn, a metathesized form of
cron, cran ‘crane’ + halh ‘nook’, ‘recess’; or
from Cornhill in London, a medieval grain exchange, named with Old
English corn ‘corn’, ‘grain’ + hyll ‘hill’, or from some
other place elsewhere similarly named.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Cornell
Name Distribution of Cornell Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Cornell families
 291 - 579  98 - 290 |
 1 - 97  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Cornell families
|
3 - 4 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Cornell census records
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Cornell Family Origin
Cornell Emigration Information (US)
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You can find out when most of the Cornell families immigrated
to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Cornell Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Cornell families immigrated
to Australia.
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Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
port of arrival and destination.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Cornell Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Cornell census records
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Military Service by Cornell
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