Colwell Family History
- Colwell Name Meaning
- English: habitational name from places in Northumberland and Devon named Colwell. The former is named with Old English col ‘(char)coal’ or col ‘cool’ + well(a) ‘spring’, ‘stream’; the latter has as the first element a Celtic river name, Coly, apparently meaning ‘narrow’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 398,825 Historical Documents with Colwell on Ancestry
- 120,903 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 96,520 Census and Voter Lists
- 16,310 Military Records
- 7,294 Immigration Records
- 157,798 Member Trees
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Number of Colwell families
 78 - 154  27 - 77 |
 1 - 26  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Colwell families
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3 - 4 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Colwell census records
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- Ireland (95)
- England (40)
- Great Britain (11)
- Scotland (7)
- Amstd,United States of America (3)
- Leihem (2)
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
Colwell census records
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