Fennell Family History
Fennell Name Meaning
English: metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of
fennel (Old English finugle, fenol, from Late Latin
fenuculum). Fennel was widely used in the Middle Ages as a herb
for seasoning. The surname may also have been a topographic name for
someone who lived near a place where the herb grew or was
grown.English: Reaney also identifies this as a derivative of
Fitz Neal ‘son of Neal’, citing as an example Fennells Wood, a
place name recorded in 1391 as Fenelgrove and named for a
Robert FitzNeel (1283).Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic
Ó Fionnghail ‘descendant of Fionnghal’, a personal
name composed of the elements fionn ‘fair’, ‘white’ +
gal ‘valor’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Fennell
Name Distribution of Fennell Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Fennell families
 213 - 424  72 - 212 |
 1 - 71  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Fennell families
|
3 - 2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Fennell census records
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Fennell Family Origin
Fennell Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Fennell Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Fennell Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Fennell census records
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Military Service by Fennell
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