When Charles Pfel was born about 1926, in La Grande, Union, Oregon, United States, his father, Edward William Pfel, was 36 and his mother, Irene Elizabeth Cottle, was 34. He died on 28 January 1933, in La Grande, Union, Oregon, United States, at the age of 8.
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English (mainly northern): topographic name for someone who lived or worked at a small castle, a wooden fort, or a house defended by a palisade (Middle English and Old French pel, piel ‘stake, pallisade’), or a habitational name from a place so named.
English (mainly northern): variant of Pell .
English (mainly northern): nickname from Middle English and Old French pel ‘stake’, perhaps for a tall, thin person.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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