Thelwall
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- (surname): Thelwell
Etymology[edit]
From Old English þel (“board, plank”) + wēl (“deep pool”), later confused with wella (“well, spring, stream”).[1]
Proper noun[edit]
Thelwall (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 City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
- Forebears