Cornwall Family History
Cornwall Name Meaning
regional name from the county of Cornwall, which is
named with the Old English tribal name Cornwealas. This is from
Kernow (the term that the Cornish used to refer to themselves,
a word of uncertain etymology, perhaps connected with a Celtic element
meaning ‘horn’, ‘headland’), + Old English wealas ‘strangers’,
‘foreigners’, the term used by the Anglo-Saxons for British-speaking
people.variant of Cornwell.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Cornwall
Name Distribution of Cornwall Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Cornwall families
 159 - 316  54 - 158 |
 1 - 53  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Cornwall families
|
57 - 112 20 - 56 |
1 - 19 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Cornwall census records
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Cornwall Family Origin
Cornwall Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Cornwall Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Cornwall census records
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Military Service by Cornwall
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