Cantrell Family History
- Cantrell Name Meaning
- English: habitational name from Cantrell in Devon, recorded as Canterhulle in 1330, from an unexplained first element + Old English hyll ‘hill’. English: from Old French chanterelle ‘small bell’, ‘treble’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a bellmaker or ringer. English: diminutive of Canter. French: nickname for someone who liked to sing.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 977,031 Historical Documents with Cantrell on Ancestry
- 207,144 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 88,139 Census and Voter Lists
- 27,294 Military Records
- 4,420 Immigration Records
- 650,034 Member Trees
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Number of Cantrell families
 55 - 108  19 - 54 |
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Cantrell families
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3 - 2 2 - 2 |
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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