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The surname Wirrell was first found in Cheshire at Wirral, a peninsula bounded by the River Dee, the River Mersey and to the north the Irish Sea. Historically part of Cheshire, its boundaries were set in the Domesday Book as "Two arrow falls from Chester City Walls." Actually, the place name dates back further to at least the 10th century where it was listed as Wirhealum and Wirheale. The name literally means "place at the nook(s) where bog-myrtle grows." 1 Another reference gives a different meaning of the Wirheal as "myrtle-corner", from the Old English wir, a myrtle tree, and heal, an angle, corner or slope. Bog myrtle or myrica gale is a species of a deciduous shrub and flowering plant that is also named sweet gale. The Hundred of Wirral is the ancient administrative area for the Wirral Peninsula.
This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Wirrell research. Another 157 words (11 lines of text) covering the years 1241, 1394, 1415, 1420, 1455, 1487, 1510 and 1600 are included under the topic Early Wirrell History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
Spelling variations of this family name include: Wirral, Wirrall, Wirall, Wyrrall, Wyrall, Wyrell, Wyrrel, Wyrell, Wirriall, Wirrial and many more.
More information is included under the topic Early Wirrell Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
Some of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: the name represented in many forms and recorded from the mid 17th century in the great migration from Europe. Migrants settled in the eastern seaboard from Newfoundland, to Maine, to Virginia, the Carolinas, and to the islands..