Cardell Family History
- Cardell Name Meaning
- Probably a reduced form of Irish and Scottish McArdle. Catalan or Asturian-Leonese: probably a topographic from a diminutive of card ‘thistle’ (Latin cardus), or, less likely, a habitational name from a place so named in Asturies. Possibly an altered form of Italian Cardelli or Cardello. Perhaps an Americanized spelling of German Kardel (see Kardell).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 48,398 Historical Documents with Cardell on Ancestry
- 15,696 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 13,466 Census and Voter Lists
- 2,408 Military Records
- 1,667 Immigration Records
- 15,161 Member Trees
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Number of Cardell families
 2 - 1  2 - 1 |
 1  |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Cardell 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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