The colwell Surname
colwell Name Meaning and History
English: habitational name from places in Northumberland and Devon
named Colwell. The former is named with Old English col
‘(char)coal’ or col ‘cool’ + well(a) ‘spring’,
‘stream’; the latter has as the first element a Celtic river name,
Coly, apparently meaning ‘narrow’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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