Snell Family History
Snell Name Meaning
English: nickname for a brisk or active person, from Middle English
snell ‘quick’, ‘lively’, in part also representing a survival
of the Old English personal name Snell or the cognate Old Norse
Snjallr.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
681,736
Historical Documents & Family Trees with Snell
Name Distribution of Snell Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Snell families
 591 - 1,179  198 - 590 |
 1 - 197  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Snell families
|
10 - 17 4 - 9 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Snell census records
You can see how Snell families moved over time by selecting different Census years.
Census records can tell you little-known facts about your ancestors such as birthplace, occupation and value of personal estate.
View all Snell census records
>
Snell Family Origin
Snell Emigration Information (US)
Click on a circle in the chart to view Snell emigration records
You can find out when most of the Snell families immigrated
to the United States.
You can focus your search to emigration records dating from that era.
Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
port of arrival and destination.
View all Snell emigration records >
from the New York Passenger Lists
Snell Emigration Information (AU)
Click on a circle in the chart to view Snell emigration records
You can find out when most of the Snell families immigrated
to Australia.
You can focus your search to emigration records dating from that era.
Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
port of arrival and destination.
View all Snell emigration records >
from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Snell Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Snell census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Snell ancestors, such as occupation.
Occupation can tell you about your ancestors' social status and economic status.
View all Snell census records >
Military Service by Snell
Message Board about Snell
594 Threads, 86
Messages
Browse message boards to get helpful hints from other people researching the name
Snell.
Threads: 594 - Messages: 86
Start a FREE Snell family tree
Starting a family tree at Ancestry is not only the easiest way to organise, preserve
and share your family history, it's also a direct link to missing information about
your roots.
About Ancestry.co.uk
The world's largest family history resource
- Explore over 7 billion genealogical records
- Search 26 million family trees
- Create your FREE family tree
- Follow leaf Hints to follow more ancestors
×