Howell Family History
Howell Name Meaning
Welsh: from the personal name Hywel ‘eminent’, popular
since the Middle Ages in particular in honor of the great 10th-century
law-giving Welsh king.English: habitational name from Howell in
Lincolnshire, so named from an Old English hugol ‘mound’,
‘hillock’ or hune ‘hoarhound’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Howell
Name Distribution of Howell Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Howell families
 1,090 - 2,177  364 - 1,089 |
 1 - 363  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Howell families
|
28 - 54 10 - 27 |
1 - 9 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Howell census records
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Howell Family Origin
Howell Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Howell Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Howell Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Howell census records
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Military Service by Howell
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