Keel Family History
Keel Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Keele in Staffordshire, named
from Old English c¯ ‘cows’ + hyll ‘hill’, or from
East and West Keal in Lincolnshire, which are named from Old Norse
kjolr ‘ridge’.Irish: reduced form of
McKeel.Swiss German: probably a variant of Kehl
2.Americanized spelling of German Kühl (see
Kuhl) or Kiehl, Kiel (see Kiel).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Keel
Name Distribution of Keel Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Keel families
 64 - 126  22 - 63 |
 1 - 21  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Keel families
|
6 - 9 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Keel census records
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Keel Family Origin
Keel Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Keel Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Keel census records
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Military Service by Keel
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