GREENWELL

GREENWELL. "The wide-spreading and ancient family of Greenwell are descended from Gulielmus Presbyter, who in 1183, as ajDpears from 'Boklon Buke,' held the lands of Greenwell in the parish of Walsingham, co. Durham, and whose son James assumed the name of the place of his inheritance," B.L.G.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.