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