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Benjamin Bethel (deceased)
Joyce Maynard
Joyce Maynard (born November 5, 1953) is an American author known for writing with candor about her life, as well as for her works of fiction and hundreds of essays and newspaper columns, often about p...
Ellen Jane Bethel (1845 - 1885)
John Bethel (deceased)
Livingston W. Bethel (1845 - 1914)
Wellesley Bethel (born Nassau, New Providence, Bahamas, 26 October 1845; died Key West, Florida, October 21, 1914) was an American lawyer, judge, politician, and the seventh Lieutenant Governor of Flor...

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About the Bethel surname

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Hebrew

It's from the Bible...means House of God (Beth El)

Welsh

A patronymic surname. It's origins is Welsh. It's motto is ' Ap Ithel ' meaning son of Ithel. Ithel is a popular first name in Wales and meant- ' Beautiful Lord.' First found in Herefordshire,where held a family seat from ancient times. The earliest hereditary surnames in England are found shortly after the Norman Conquest of 1066 and are of Norman French origin rather than native English. On the arrival of the Normans they identified themselves by references to the estates from which they came from in northern France. These names moved rapidly on with their bearers into Scotland and Ireland. Others of the Norman Invaders took names from the estates in England which they had newly acquired.

other versions of this surname

Bethell