Carswell Family History
- Carswell Name Meaning
- English and Scottish: habitational name from Carswell in south Oxfordshire (formerly Berkshire) or from any of the places mentioned at Creswell, all named with Old English cærse ‘(water)cress’ + well(a) ‘spring’, ‘stream’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 203,792 Historical Documents with Carswell on Ancestry
- 60,922 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 50,743 Census and Voter Lists
- 7,260 Military Records
- 5,706 Immigration Records
- 79,161 Member Trees
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Number of Carswell families
 47 - 92  16 - 46 |
 1 - 15  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Carswell families
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123 - 243 42 - 122 |
1 - 41 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Carswell census records
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- Scotland (66)
- England (29)
- Ireland (18)
- Great Britain (16)
- Dumfras,Scotland (1)
- Manchester,IRELAND (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
Carswell census records
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