Broadwell Family History
- Broadwell Name Meaning
- English: habitational name from places in Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, and Warwickshire named Broadwell, from Old English brad ‘broad’ + wella ‘spring’, ‘stream’, or a topographic name with the same meaning.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 72,192 Historical Documents with Broadwell on Ancestry
- 20,123 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 12,646 Census and Voter Lists
- 2,751 Military Records
- 788 Immigration Records
- 35,884 Member Trees
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Number of Broadwell families
 26 - 50  9 - 25 |
 1 - 8  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Broadwell census records
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
Broadwell census records
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