Spell Family History
- Spell Name Meaning
- German: of uncertain origin; perhaps a habitational name from Spelle (see Speller).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 120,489 Historical Documents with Spell on Ancestry
- 33,731 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 15,147 Census and Voter Lists
- 5,957 Military Records
- 672 Immigration Records
- 64,982 Member Trees
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Number of Spell families
 6 - 10  3 - 5 |
 1 - 2  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Spell 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
Spell census records
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