Seal Family History
Seal Name Meaning
English: variant of Sale 1.English: metonymic
occupational name for a maker of seals or signet rings, from Middle
English, Old French seel ‘seal’ (Latin sigillum).English: metonymic occupational name for a maker of saddles, from
Old French seele ‘saddle’.English: nickname for a plump or
ungainly person, from Middle English sele ‘seal’ (the aquatic
mammal).Americanized form (translation) of Jewish Siegel.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Seal
Name Distribution of Seal Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Seal families
 201 - 399  68 - 200 |
 1 - 67  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Seal families
|
4 - 5 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Seal census records
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Seal Family Origin
Seal Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Seal Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Seal census records
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Military Service by Seal
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