Nail Family History
Nail Name Meaning
English: from Middle English naile, nayle ‘nail’
(from Old English nægel), applied as a metonymic
occupational name for a maker of nails, or as a nickname for a tall
thin person.Americanized form of German Nagel.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Nail
Name Distribution of Nail Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Nail families
 11 - 19  4 - 10 |
 1 - 3  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Nail families
|
3 - 2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Nail census records
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Nail Family Origin
Nail Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Nail Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Nail census records
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Military Service by Nail
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