Thelwall
English
editAlternative forms
edit- (surname): Thelwell
Etymology
editFrom Old English þel (“board, plank”) + wēl (“deep pool”), later confused with wella (“well, spring, stream”).[1]
Proper noun
editThelwall (countable and uncountable, plural Thelwalls)
- A suburban village in Grappenhall and Thelwall parish, Warrington borough, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ6487).
- A habitational surname from Old English.
Statistics
edit- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Thelwall is the 35632nd most common surname in England, belonging to 94 individuals.
References
edit- ^ "Key to English Place Names". Key to English Place Names- Worth Kent. University of Nottingham.
Further reading
edit- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Thelwall”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
- Forebears