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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from a place in Cheshire named Kelsall, from the Middle English personal name Kell + Old English halh ‘nook or corner of land’, or possibly from Kelshall in Hertfordshire, which is named with an Old English personal name Cylli + Old English hyll ‘hill’, or even Kelsale in Suffolk, named with an Old English personal name Cēl(i) or Cēol + Old English halh.

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