Bagwell Family History
- Bagwell Name Meaning
- English: of uncertain origin. It may be a variant of Backwell, a habitational name from Backwell in Somerset, named with Old English bæc ‘ridge’ + wella ‘spring’, ‘stream’, or possibly from Bakewell in Derbyshire (see Bakewell). Alternatively, it may be from a minor place named with an unattested Old English word, bagga ‘ badger’ + wella ‘spring’, ‘stream’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 426,829 Historical Documents with Bagwell on Ancestry
- 71,979 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 38,730 Census and Voter Lists
- 11,598 Military Records
- 1,740 Immigration Records
- 302,782 Member Trees
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Number of Bagwell families
 36 - 70  13 - 35 |
 1 - 12  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Bagwell census records
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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