Beall History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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England

The Beall surname is thought to have been created from one of the places so named (in Northumberland, and in West Yorkshire). The place name derives from the Old English "beo," meaning "bee" and "hyll," meaning "hill." There is also a Norman name Beall derived from the Old French "bel."

Early Origins of the Beall family

The surname Beall was first found in Northumberland. Today Beeley is a village and civil parish in the Derbyshire Dales district of northern Derbyshire, near Bakewell. In the Domesday Book, the place name was listed as Begelie 1

Also in Northumberland, Beal with Lowlin is a township, in the parish of Kyloe, union of Berwick-Upon-Tweed, in Islandshire. 2 Bealon-the-Hill, is a hamlet in north Durham, close to the sea. "In Testa de Nevill it is spelt Behil, and it is recorded there that Gilbert de Behil held it of the see of Durham." 3 4

Raine's History and Antiquities of North Durham notes Thomas de Behil there in 1382 and Laurence Beil in 1517.

The Yorkshire Poll Tax Rolls of 1379 noted Willelmus Beall as holding lands there at that time. 4

Early History of the Beall family

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Beall research. Another 61 words (4 lines of text) covering the years 1203, 1541, 1601, 1608, 1621, 1632, 1651, 1660, 1664, 1665, 1674, 1683, 1684, 1697, 1699, 1813, 1816, 1820, 1840 and 1854 are included under the topic Early Beall History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Beall Spelling Variations

During the era when a person's name, tribe and posterity was one of his most important possessions, many different spellings were found in the archives examined. Beall occurred in many references, and spelling variations of the name found included Beal, Beale, Beall, Bealle, Beel, Beele, Beales, Bealer and many more.

Early Notables of the Beall family

Notable amongst the family name during their early history was Robert Beale (1541-1601), and English diplomatist and antiquary, said to have been descended from a family settled at Woodbridge in Suffolk. 5William Beale (died 1651), was an English Royalist churchman, Master in turn of Jesus College, Cambridge and St John's College, Cambridge; John Beale (c.1608-1683), an English clergyman, scientific writer, and early Fellow of the Royal Society; Sir John Beale (1621-1684)...
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Beall Ranking

In the United States, the name Beall is the 3,074^th most popular surname with an estimated 9,948 people with that name. 6

Beall migration to the United States +

Gradually becoming disenchanted with life in Ireland many of these uprooted families sailed aboard the armada of sailing ships known as the "White Sails" which plied the stormy Atlantic. These overcrowded ships often arrived with only 60 to 70% of their original passenger list, many dying of illness and the elements, were buried at sea. In North America, early immigrants bearing the family name Beall, or a spelling variation of the surname include:

Beall Settlers in United States in the 17th Century

John Beall, who landed in Hingham, Massachusetts in 1638 7
Ninian Beall, who arrived in Maryland in 1652 7
Thomas Beall, who landed in Maryland in 1659 7
Robert Beall, who arrived in Virginia in 1663 7
William Beall, who landed in Maryland in 1664 7
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Beall Settlers in United States in the 19th Century

James M Beall, who arrived in San Francisco, California in 1850 7

Contemporary Notables of the name Beall (post 1700) +

William C. Beall (1911-1994), American photographer who in 1957 captured a photograph of two-year-old Allan Weaver and police officer Maurice Cullinane which he titled Faith and Confidence winning him the 1958 Pulitzer Prize for Photography
Lloyd James Beall (1808-1887), United States Army officer and paymaster of U.S. Army, Commandant of the Confederate States Marine Corps
John Woolf Beall (1882-1926), American Major League Baseball outfielder who played from 1913 to 1918
John Yates Beall (1835-1865), American Confederate privateer in the American Civil War
James T. "Jim" Beall Jr. (b. 1951), American Democratic politician, Member of the California State Senate (2012-)
James Glenn Beall (1894-1971), American businessman and politician, United States Senator from Maryland (1953-1965)
James Andrew "Jack" Beall (1866-1929), American politician, United States Congressman from Texas (1903-1915)
George Beall (1729-1807), American landowner in Maryland and Georgetown in what is now Washington, D.C
Daryl Beall (b. 1946), American politician, Member of the Iowa Senate (2003-)
Robert Brooks Beall (b. 1948), American Major League Baseball player who played from 1975 to 1980
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Citations +

Mills, A.D., Dictionary of English Place-Names. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. Print. (ISBN 0-19-869156-4)
Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England. Institute of Historical Research, 1848, Print.
Testa de Nevill or "Liber Feodorum" or "Book of Fees," thought to have been written by Ralph de Nevill, for King John (1199–1216)
Bardsley, C.W, A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames: With Special American Instances. Wiltshire: Heraldry Today, 1901. Print. (ISBN 0-900455-44-6)
Smith, George (ed), Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1885-1900. Print
"What are the 5,000 Most Common Last Names in the U.S.?". NameCensus.com, https://namecensus.com/last-names/
Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)