Släkthistoria för Vennell
Vennell Vad efternamn betyder
variant of Fennell with voicing of initial F-. Compare Walterus Fennell 1573 Ricardi Vennell 1616 in IGI (Westbury Wilts); Elizabeth Fennell 1637 Alice Vennell 1732 in IGI (Cranbrook Kent); John Fennell 1663 James Vennell 1675 in IGI (Willingdon Sussex). Some of the following early bearers may alternatively belong under (2). See also Funnell. for someone who lived in a lane or alley from Middle English (Old French) venelle ‘small street’. It was synonymous with the more usual Lane and some of the medieval examples given below may be clerical translations of Laneinto Anglo-Norman French.
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
