Show ContentsLessel History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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Lessel Family Crest Download (JPG) Heritage Series - 600 DPI

Family Crest Download (JPG) Heritage Series - 600 DPI

Early Origins of the Lessel family

The surname Lessel was first found in Yorkshire, where they held a family seat from the time of the conquest in 1066.

Early History of the Lessel family

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Lessel research. Another 110 words (8 lines of text) covering the years 1066, 1170, 1296, 1500 and 1713 are included under the topic Early Lessel History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Lessel Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Lascells, Lascelles, Lessels, Lassells, Lasselis and many more.

Early Notables of the Lessel family

  • Radulph Lesselis of Buchan, and Colonel Lascelles, commissioned in 1713 to undertake the demolition of the fortifications at Dunkirk after the War of the Spanish Succession

Lessel migration to the United States+



Lessel Settlers in United States in the 19th Century
  • Peter Lessel, who arrived in Cincinnati, Oh in 1869-1870 1
  1. 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)

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