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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from Old French poutrel ‘colt’ (Late Latin pultrellus), a metonymic occupational name for someone responsible for keeping horses, or a nickname for a frisky and high-spirited person. This surname is also found in Ireland, Mac Lysaght believing it to be a variant of Purcell.

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