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The purtill Surname

purtill Name Meaning and History

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.

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

Distribution of purtill Families in the US in 1920
Number of purtill families
 10-18
 4-9		 1-3
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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