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Gartell Surname

Data
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Gartell baptisms | Gartell marriages | Gartell burials

Relationship to me
Mary Maria Gartell was my 2 x Great Grandmother, born 1824 in Holwell, Dorset. She married Silas Brown in Marston Magna, Somerset in 1855.

About the Gartell surname
Gartell is not a common name. In the 1881 Census (England and Wales) there were only 57 people listed with the surname Gartell:

County Actual per 100,000
Dorset 24 13
Surrey 8 1
Somerset 6 1
Middlesex 6 0
Lancashire 6 0
Devonshire 3 0
Essex 2 0
Oxfordshire 1 1
Kent 1 0

Data taken from The British 19th Century Surname Atlas

  Map showing the distribution of the surname Gartell in the 1881 census.

The surname Gartrell was a little more common. There were 148 Gartrells in the 1881 census, 102 of whom resided in Cornwall. Given the odd variations in spelling of Gartell and Gartrell in the Dorset parish registers, IGI etc. I have concluded (perhaps erroneously) that they are variations of the same name.

Miscellaneous

Apprenticeship Indenture (Dorset Records Office, MICROFILM MIC/R/1566)

Thomas Gartell to Robert Froom as a gentleman's servant.
Date of Indenture: 1st March 1781 In the County of Somerset.
Length of Apprenticeship: until 19 years of age.

With him to dwell (Froom) and serve from this date until 19 years of age.

Witnesses. William Milllar Church Warden in the parish of Holnest.
William Coombes and Robert Garland, overseers of the poor in Holnest.

Signed across the wax seal by Robert Froom in the presence of William Danbury.
Other signatures (JPs): J H Moolyatt and George Hutchings.

The Indenture states on the part of Thomas Gartell:
That he shall share in all the lawful benefits, and according to his power, will, ability, honesty, orderly and obediently in all things demean and behave himself.

Monumental Inscriptions

Thomas and Anastatia GARTELL

St Lawrence parish church, Folke. Monument number: 13
Large upright stone
In remembrance of Thomas GARTELL
Who died March 20th 1860
Aged 60 years

Also his beloved wife Anastatia GARTELL
Who died Feb. 26th 1865
Aged 70 years
In thy prescence is fulness of joy at thy right hand there are pleasures for ever more

Source: Dorset Online Parish Clerk

Jacob and Mary GARTELL

Caundle Marsh parish church. Monument number: 25
Medium upright stone cross
In loving memory of Jacob GARTELL
Who died Jan 13th 1905
Aged 68 years

Also of Mary GARTELL His beloved wife
Who died Feb 18th 1911
Aged 76 years

Source: Dorset Online Parish Clerk


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