Kells Family History
Kells Name Meaning
Scottish and Irish: from Old Norse kaetil ‘cauldron’; in
Scotland of topographic origin.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Kells
Name Distribution of Kells Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Kells families
 22 - 42  8 - 21 |
 1 - 7  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Kells families
|
8 - 14 3 - 7 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Kells census records
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Kells Family Origin
Kells Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Kells Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Kells census records
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Military Service by Kells
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