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Newell

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Probable Origins & Usage

  • Noel - a French baptismal name
  • found as a family name and a personal name

Spellings & Alternate Names

  • Noel
  • Nowell

Places Family is Found

  • Old Town
  • all over the Northeast

Earliest Occurrences of the Name

  • Newell Sylvester appears in the 1815 Penobscot Roster
  • 1845 Peter Newell's widow remarried at St. Ann's Burnt Church in New Brunswick (Maliseet or Mi'kmaq)
  • Thomas Newell (b.abt.1792) is the oldest of the name to appear in the 1858 School Census

Notes

A common name found in most Wabanaki groups.

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