The bethel Surname

bethel Name Meaning and History

Welsh: Anglicized form of Welsh ab Ithel ‘son of Ithael’, a personal name meaning ‘bountiful lord’. Compare Idle.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

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bethel Family Facts

Distribution of bethel Families in the US in 1920

Number of bethel families

85-167

29-84

1-28

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Threads: 113 - Messages: 414

Thread	Author	Replies
Sampson Bethel who married Mary Cantrell	Sharon Durkee	1
Bethel's who were Rhode Island Indians	Rachel Bethel Tomlin	5
Thomas Bethel 1785 Gloucestershire, England-1871 Lycoming Co., PA	kristin_gessner	8
Walter Hopkins Bethel	Mary F. Wood	6
John Bethel	jbethel1	10
John Bethell/Bithell	Mark Bithell	0
Walter & Elizabeth Bethel	gcjohnston	0
Affidavit for widow's pension by Margaret Bethel, 1849, on service of John Bethel, dec'd.	GraingerArchives	0
Bethel (Bahamas)	Ken	20
Drury Smith (b.1748) m. Martha Peyton/Martha Challis (w/Bethell/Bethel ties): VA>NC>TN	kittykatmom	0

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