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SHAUL Family History

This unusual and interesting name is of Anglo-Saxon origin, and is a locational surname deriving from the place called 'Shawell' in Leicestershire. The placename is first recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as 'Sawelle', in 1224 as 'Schadewelle' and by 1316 as 'Shathewell'. The name derives from the Old English pre 7th Century 'Sceath, Scead', boundary and 'Well, waell', well, spring, or stream, and means 'the boundary stream'. Locational names were usually given to the lord of the manor, and were used especially by those former inhabitants of a place who moved to another area.