Lindell History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
The surname Lindell is derived from the German word "linde" meaning lime tree. It was a topographic name for someone who lived near a lime tree. There are also several places named for this word, especially in northern
Germany, and as such people may have adopted the habitation name as a surname. There are several Swedish compound names, created ornamentally from the root "Lind," they include Lindberg, Lindström, Lindbloom and others.
Lindell Spelling Variations
Migration of the Lindell family to the New World and Oceana
Some of the first settlers of this family name were:
Lindell Settlers in United States in the 19th Century
- John Lindell, aged 32, who arrived in Alexandria, Va in 1817 [1]CITATION[CLOSE]
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) - Edmund H Lindell, aged 37, who arrived in Texas in 1871 [1]CITATION[CLOSE]
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)
Contemporary Notables of the name Lindell (post 1700)
- Rian David Lindell (b. 1977), former American NFL football placekicker
- John Harlan Lindell (1916-1985), American Major League Baseball outfielder and pitcher who played from 1941 to 1954, three-time World Series champion (1943, 1947, 1949)
- Eric Lindell (b. 1969), American singer-songwriter
- Michael J. Lindell (b. 1961), American entrepreneur, inventor and CEO of My Pillow, Inc
- Ghita Mary Lindell (1895-1986), English member of the Voluntary Aid Detachment during WWI, member of the Resistance during WWII; she was decorated many times
- Yehuda Lindell (b. 1971), Australian professor in the Department of Computer Science at Bar-Ilan University
- Unni Maria Lindell (b. 1957), Norwegian writer
- Jennifer Margaret "Jenny" Lindell (b. 1953), Australian politician from Springvale, Melbourne, Victoria, Speaker of the Victorian Legislative Assembly (2006–2010)
- Lindell Shumake (b. 1949), American politician, Republican member of the Missouri House of Representatives (2011)
- Lindell F. Shumake, American Republican politician, Member of Missouri State House of Representatives 5th District; Elected 2012 [2]CITATION[CLOSE]
The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2015, October 14) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html
Historic Events for the Lindell family
- Mr. Edvard Bengtsson Lindell, aged 36, Swedish Third Class passenger from Helsingborg, Skåne who sailed aboard the RMS Titanic and survived the sinking in collapsible A but later died A [3]CITATION[CLOSE]
Titanic Passenger List - Titanic Facts. (Retrieved 2016, July 13) . Retrieved from http://www.titanicfacts.net/titanic-passenger-list.html - Mrs. Elin Gerda Lindell, (née Persson), aged 30, Swedish Third Class passenger from Helsingborg, Skåne who sailed aboard the RMS Titanic and survived the sinking in collapsible A but later died A [3]CITATION[CLOSE]
Titanic Passenger List - Titanic Facts. (Retrieved 2016, July 13) . Retrieved from http://www.titanicfacts.net/titanic-passenger-list.html
Lindell Family Crest Products
See Also
Citations
- ^ 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)
- ^ The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2015, October 14) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html
- ^ Titanic Passenger List - Titanic Facts. (Retrieved 2016, July 13) . Retrieved from http://www.titanicfacts.net/titanic-passenger-list.html