Cantwell Family History
- Cantwell Name Meaning
- English: possibly a habitational name from Canwell in Staffordshire, named with either Old English canne ‘can’, ‘cup’ or the Old English personal name Cana + well(a) ‘spring’, ‘stream’. The surname is common in Ireland as well as England.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 295,367 Historical Documents with Cantwell on Ancestry
- 82,073 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 53,581 Census and Voter Lists
- 10,030 Military Records
- 7,054 Immigration Records
- 142,629 Member Trees
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Number of Cantwell families
 47 - 92  16 - 46 |
 1 - 15  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Cantwell families
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6 - 9 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Cantwell census records
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- Ireland (291)
- England (38)
- Great Britain (32)
- Hoboker (1)
- Killany,IRL;Great Britain (1)
- Passengers (1)
from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
Cantwell census records
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