When William Morton Keel was born on 1 November 1899, in Thirsk, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Joseph William Keel, was 25 and his mother, Harriett Morton, was 29. He married Gladys Hill in December 1951, in Thirsk, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. He lived in Thirlby, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom in 1901 and Arden, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom in 1911. He died on 8 March 1985, in Topcliffe, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 85, and was buried in Topcliffe, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom.
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English (Wiltshire and Somerset): habitational name from East and West Keal (Lincolnshire) or Keele (Staffordshire). The Lincolnshire placename is derived from Old Norse kjǫlr ‘keel, ridge’, while the Staffordshire placename probably derives from Old English cū ‘cow’ + hyll ‘hill’.
English: in Wiltshire, perhaps a variant of Keevil, a habitational name from Keevil (Wiltshire), derived from an Old English personal name Cȳfa or Old English cȳf ‘vessel, tub’ (used topographically for a depression or hollow) + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
Irish: shortened form of McKeel .
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