The Odell Family History

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The Odell Family in the Census

Census Freqency of the Surname Odell
1841 Census 1,119
1851 Census 1,256
1861 Census 1,415
1871 Census 1,761
1891 Census 2,373

Most Frequent Forenames for the Odell Family in the Census

Name 1841 Census 1851 Census 1861 Census 1871 Census 1891 Census Total
WILLIAM Odell 98 96 107 121 111
GEORGE Odell 57 73 77 88 86
JOHN Odell 73 79 77 81 67
ELIZABETH Odell 58 64 82 94 76
MARY Odell 109 76 66 57 61
SARAH Odell 77 68 59 66 58
JAMES Odell 61 53 60 57 49
ANN Odell 65 57 54 56 39
THOMAS Odell 62 56 46 53 41
CHARLES Odell 18 31 36 42 54
HENRY Odell 23 31 30 38 35
JOSEPH Odell 23 29 28 32 27
ELIZA Odell 16 22 25 36 31
JANE Odell 18 31 24 36 20
EMMA Odell 12 20 23 32 33
SAMUEL Odell 20 24 23 20 21
ELLEN Odell 9 10 18 27 30
MARY ANN Odell 5 14 25 22 15
ARTHUR Odell 2 2 14 25 37
HANNAH Odell 12 13 20 22 13

Etmology and History of the Surname: Odell

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Your Family History Search

You can use the forms below to do automatic searches for the Odell family online amongst birth, marriage and death records from 1837, plus census transcripts for 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1891 and 1901


 


A Short History of Parish Records
Parish Registers were first ordered to be kept by Thomas Cromwell, Vicar General of King Henry VIII in 1538.

 

Viewing Parish Records in your own home
With the use of personal computers becoming more widespread, the best way to make the parish records easily accessible to the general public is to transfer those records from micro-fiche and film to CD-ROM.

 

Reading Old Handwriting
Palaeography is the study of old handwriting. At first glance, many early records look illegible to the modern reader.

 

Can gravestones tell you anything about your ancestry?
Monumental Inscriptions (the writing on gravestones) can tell you alot about an ancestor, but you'll probably find more information in a burial register or death record.