When Blanch Mariane Kessell was born on 14 September 1889, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, her father, Harald Sigvart Kessell, was 32 and her mother, Anna Corina Skielvig, was 25. She lived in Des Moines, Polk, Iowa, United States in 1920. She died on 21 July 1977, at the age of 87, and was buried in Tucson, Pima, Arizona, United States.
Cornish (Cornwall and Devon): habitational name from one or more of several places in Cornwall whose names derive from Middle Cornish castell, kestell ‘castle, village, tor’, such as Kestle in Saint Columb Minor, Kestle in Egloshayle, and Kestal in Saint Hilary.
Altered form of German or Dutch Kessel .
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