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From: (Howard Swain)
Subject: Re: [HWE] POWELL familly research
Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2001 21:21:13 -0400 (EDT)


Greetings,

At 10:38 AM 6/30/01 EDT, Gerald wrote:
>Greeting Listers:
>
> I recently read in the book "French Blood in America" that the surname
>POWELL comes from the name PUEL and that there was a Huegonot family with
>Puel in London around 1675. If anyone has anything on this ,please, let me
>know.
> I am also trying to determine if POWELL is a name of French origen in
>all cases. RSVP.


I don't think so. In fact, the only origin I had heard of before
this was from "Ap Howell" which the Welsh used to mean "son of Howell" --
in other words, a patronymic.

Regards,
Howard


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