Postel Family History
Postel Name Meaning
German (Bavaria, Austria): habitational name from any of various place names of Slavic origin, for example Postelitz and Postlow.German: nickname from Middle High German possolt ‘handicraft’.German: from a Slavic pet form of Sebastian.German: from Apostel ‘apostle’, a nickname for someone who played the part of an apostle in a medieval mystery play. Compare Postle.Dutch: habitational name from Postel in Antwerp province, Bavaria.Jewish (from Ukraine): metonymic occupational name for a shoemaker, from Yiddish postele ‘leather shoe’.
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Postel
Name Distribution of Postel Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Postel families
 5 - 8  2 - 4 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Postel census records
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Postel Family Origin
Postel Emigration Information (US)
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Postel Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Postel census records
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