When Charity Casteel was born in 1805, in Knox, Tennessee, United States, her father, Francis Casteel, was 42 and her mother, Mary Peck, was 47. She married Zachariah Biddle on 16 October 1834, in Pike Township, Livingston, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She died on 14 March 1844, in Pike, Illinois, United States, at the age of 39, and was buried in Bethel Cemetery, Township of Newburg, Pike, Illinois, United States.
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Altered form of mainly northern French Ducastel: topographic name, with fused preposition and definite article du ‘from the’, from Picard castel, Old French chastel ‘castle’ (see Castel 5, compare 2 below); or a habitational name for someone from any of several places called Le Castel. Compare Castile .
Dutch: from kasteel ‘castle’, hence a topographic name or a metonymic occupational name for someone who lived or worked in a castle.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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