Kassel Family History
- Kassel Name Meaning
- German: habitational name from a place of this name in northeastern Hesse, so named from Frankish castella, cassela ‘fortification’, a military term from Late Latin castellum ‘fortified position’, ‘fort’, or a topographic name from the same word.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 72,767 Historical Documents with Kassel on Ancestry
- 22,515 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 6,808 Census and Voter Lists
- 7,289 Military Records
- 2,463 Immigration Records
- 33,692 Member Trees
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Number of Kassel families
 2 - 1  2 - 1 |
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Kassel 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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