Castell Family History
- Castell Name Meaning
- English: variant spelling of Castle. Manx: from a short form of the Old Norse personal name Ásketill, composed of the elements áss ‘god’ + ketill ‘kettle’. Catalan: topographic name from Catalan castell ‘castle’, a derivative of Late Latin castellum ‘castle’ (a diminutive of Latin castrum ‘fort’, ‘Roman walled city’). Compare Spanish Castillo and Occitan (southern French) Castel. Probably an altered spelling of German Kastel.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 138,675 Historical Documents with Castell on Ancestry
- 32,512 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 20,202 Census and Voter Lists
- 2,878 Military Records
- 2,421 Immigration Records
- 80,662 Member Trees
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Number of Castell families
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Castell census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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