Beadle Family History
- Beadle Name Meaning
- English: occupational name for a medieval court official, from Middle English bedele (Old English bydel, reinforced by Old French bedel). The word is of Germanic origin, and akin to Old English beodan ‘to command’ and Old High German bodo ‘messenger’. In the Middle Ages a beadle in England and France was a junior official of a court of justice, responsible for acting as an usher in a court, carrying the mace in processions in front of a justice, delivering official notices, making proclamations (as a sort of town crier), and so on. By Shakespeare’s day a beadle was a sort of village constable, appointed by the parish to keep order.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 383,687 Historical Documents with Beadle on Ancestry
- 95,588 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 88,362 Census and Voter Lists
- 8,386 Military Records
- 5,570 Immigration Records
- 185,781 Member Trees
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Number of Beadle families
 285 - 567  96 - 284 |
 1 - 95  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Beadle families
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10 - 17 4 - 9 |
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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