When Shelden Odell was born in 1799, in Vermont, United States, his father, Abijah O'Dell, was 42 and his mother, Sarah Sheldon, was 33. He married Deborah ODELL about 1827, in Odelltown, Saint-Jean, Quebec, Canada. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. He died in 1856, in London, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 57, and was buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, London, Ontario, Canada.
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English: habitational name from Odell, a place in Bedfordshire, which derives from Old English wād ‘woad’ (a plant collected for the blue dye that could be obtained from it) + hyll ‘hill’. The spelling O'Dell is not Irish, but a creation by folk etymology, found first among English migrants to Limerick. Compare Waddell . — Note: The population figure published by the US Census Bureau does not distinguish between the surnames O'Dell and Odell .
Altered form of Swedish Odell , as if of Irish origin.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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