Beal Family History
- Beal Name Meaning
- English (of Norman origin): from Old French bel(e) ‘fair’, ‘lovely’ (see Beau), either a nickname for a handsome man or a metronymic from this word used as a female personal name. English: habitational name from places so named in Northumberland and West Yorkshire. The former of these (Behil in early records) comes from Old English beo ‘bee’ + hyll ‘hill’; the latter (Begale in Domesday Book) is from Old English beag ‘ring’, here probably used in the sense ‘river bend’, or an unattested personal name Beaga derived from this word + halh ‘nook’, ‘recess’. French (Béal): topographic name for someone who lived by a mill race, from the Lyonnaise dialect term béal, bezale, bedale (of Gaulish origin). Americanized spelling of German Biehl or Bühl (see Buehl).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 1,207,072 Historical Documents with Beal on Ancestry
- 275,124 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 163,485 Census and Voter Lists
- 26,939 Military Records
- 24,485 Immigration Records
- 717,039 Member Trees
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Number of Beal families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Beal census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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