Maxwell Family History
Maxwell Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from a place near Melrose in
Roxburghshire. The place name is first recorded in 1144 in the form
Mackeswell ‘Mack’s spring or stream (Old English
well(a))’.Irish: this surname is common in Ulster, where
it has sometimes been adopted as an alternative to Miskell.Jewish: arbitrary adoption of the Scottish name, or
Americanized form of one or more like-sounding Jewish surnames.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Maxwell
Name Distribution of Maxwell Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Maxwell families
 386 - 769  129 - 385 |
 1 - 128  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Maxwell families
|
666 - 1,329 223 - 665 |
1 - 222 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Maxwell census records
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Maxwell Family Origin
Maxwell Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Maxwell Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Maxwell Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Maxwell census records
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Military Service by Maxwell
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