Farwell Family History
Farwell Name Meaning
English: habitational name from a place in Staffordshire, so named
from Old English fæger ‘pleasant’ + wella ‘spring’,
‘stream’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Farwell
Name Distribution of Farwell Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Farwell families
 74 - 146  25 - 73 |
 1 - 24  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Farwell families
|
5 - 7 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Farwell census records
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Farwell Family Origin
Farwell Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Farwell Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Farwell census records
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Military Service by Farwell
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