Happel Family History
- Happel Name Meaning
- German: from a pet form of the medieval German personal names Hadebald or Hadebert, composed of the elements had(u) ‘battle’, ‘strife’ + berht ‘bright’, ‘famous’ or bald ‘bold’, ‘brave’. Dutch: metonymic occupational name for a seller of apples, a variant of Appel.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 65,062 Historical Documents with Happel on Ancestry
- 38,667 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 6,327 Census and Voter Lists
- 2,627 Military Records
- 1,732 Immigration Records
- 15,709 Member Trees
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Number of Happel families
 5 - 7  2 - 4 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Happel families
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7 - 12 3 - 6 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Happel census records
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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
Happel census records
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