Kendall Family History
Kendall Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Kendal in Cumbria, recorded in
1095 as Kircabikendala ‘village with a church in the valley of
the Kent river’.From an Anglicized form of the Welsh
personal name Cynddelw, which was borne by a famous
12th-century Welsh poet. It probably derives from a Celtic word
meaning ‘exalted’, ‘high’ + delw ‘image’, ‘effigy’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Kendall
Name Distribution of Kendall Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Kendall families
 768 - 1,534  257 - 767 |
 1 - 256  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Kendall families
|
13 - 24 5 - 12 |
1 - 4 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Kendall census records
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Kendall Family Origin
Kendall Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Kendall Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Kendall census records
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Military Service by Kendall
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