Canell Family History
- Canell Name Meaning
- Catalan: possibly from Catalan canell ‘wrist’. Respelling of French Canel, a topographic name from canel ‘water-channel’, ‘pipe’, or Swiss German Känel, also a topographic name with the same meaning.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 15,404 Historical Documents with Canell on Ancestry
- 5,134 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 6,119 Census and Voter Lists
- 515 Military Records
- 1,279 Immigration Records
- 2,357 Member Trees
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Number of Canell families
 10 - 17  4 - 9 |
 1 - 3  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Canell families
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2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Canell census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the Canadian Passenger Lists
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from 1881 CA Census Data
Canell census records
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