Kassel Family History
Kassel Name Meaning
German: habitational name from a place of this name in northeastern
Hesse, so named from Frankish castella, cassela
‘fortification’, a military term from Late Latin castellum
‘fortified position’, ‘fort’, or a topographic name from the same
word.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Kassel
Name Distribution of Kassel Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Kassel families
 2 - 1  2 - 1 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Kassel census records
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Kassel Family Origin
Kassel Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Kassel Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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Military Service by Kassel
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