Harwell Family History
- Harwell Name Meaning
- English: habitational name from places called Harwell in south Oxfordshire (formerly part of Berkshire) and Nottinghamshire. The former was named in Old English as ‘spring or stream by or from the gray one’, from Hara ‘the gray’ (here referring to a certain hill) + wella; while the latter was named from Old English heore, h¯re ‘pleasant’ + wella ‘stream’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 354,603 Historical Documents with Harwell on Ancestry
- 56,248 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 35,231 Census and Voter Lists
- 9,116 Military Records
- 1,674 Immigration Records
- 252,334 Member Trees
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Number of Harwell families
 20 - 37  7 - 19 |
 1 - 6  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Harwell families
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7 - 11 3 - 6 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Harwell 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
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