Last name: POWELL
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POWELL : This last name is indexed 1,013,659 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
POWELL : A contraction of the Welsh Ap Howell, the son of Howell. It may also be deduced from Paul, of which it was a former orthography: After the text of Crist, and Powel, and Jon. Wright's Chaucer.
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