Elwell Family History
- Elwell Name Meaning
- English: habitational name, most probably from a place in Dorset, named from Old English h?l ‘omen’ + well(a) ‘spring’, ‘stream’; the reference is presumably to pagan river worship. Two minor places with this name in Devon are probably named as ‘elder-tree spring’, from Old English ellern ‘elder tree’ + well(a). The surname is now found chiefly in the West Midlands. Compare Halliwell.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 339,407 Historical Documents with Elwell on Ancestry
- 97,367 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 48,822 Census and Voter Lists
- 9,849 Military Records
- 4,937 Immigration Records
- 178,432 Member Trees
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Number of Elwell families
 251 - 499  84 - 250 |
 1 - 83  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Elwell families
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4 - 5 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Elwell census records
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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