Mansell Family History
Mansell Name Meaning
(of Norman origin):
habitational or regional name from Old French mansel
‘inhabitant of Le Mans or the surrounding area of Maine’. The
place was originally named in Latin (ad) Ceromannos, from the
name of the Gaulish tribe living there, the Ceromanni. The name
was reduced to Celmans and then became Le Mans as a
result of the mistaken identification of the first syllable with the
Old French demonstrative adjective.status name for a particular
type of feudal tenant, Anglo-Norman French mansel, one who
occupied a manse (Late Latin mansa ‘dwelling’), a
measure of land sufficient to support one family.some early
examples, such as Thomas filius Manselli (Northumbria 1256),
point to derivation from a personal name, perhaps the Germanic
derivative of Mann 2 Latinized as Manzellinus.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Mansell
Name Distribution of Mansell Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Mansell families
 299 - 596  100 - 298 |
 1 - 99  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Mansell families
|
11 - 19 4 - 10 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Mansell census records
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Mansell Family Origin
Mansell Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Mansell Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Mansell Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Mansell census records
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Military Service by Mansell
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