Avella Family History
- Avella Name Meaning
- Italian: habitational name from a place named Avella, in Avellino province, Campania; it is an ancient settlement which was named Abella in Latin. Catalan, Galician and Spanish: variant of Abella.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 11,009 Historical Documents with Avella on Ancestry
- 6,356 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,702 Census and Voter Lists
- 380 Military Records
- 1,180 Immigration Records
- 1,391 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Avella census records
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