Obergefell Family History & Genealogy

History

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names
Obergfell (122) 
German: perhaps a reduced form of the topographic name Oberbergfels ‘upper mountain peak’. ...

Name Origin

Ober meaning in german last name:
"Ober Family History. Ober Name Meaning. English: unexplained. South German: topographic name for someone who lived at the upper end of a village on a hill, from Middle High German ober, obar 'above'. In other cases, it may have denoted someone who lived on an upper floor of a building with two or more floors."
Source:
Ancestry.com.name-origin.surname

Fell meaning in german last name:
"English, German, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): metonymic occupational name for a furrier, from Middle English fell, Middle High German vel, or German Fell or Yiddish fel, all of which mean 'skin', 'hide', or 'pelt'."
Source:
Ancestry.com.name-origin.surname

Other Definitions of "fell"
Source: English Oxford Living Dictionaries
Main definitions of fell in English: fell1fell2fell3fell4fell5
fell2
VERB
1
Cut down (a tree):
2
Stitch down (the edge of a seam) to lie flat:

[WITH OBJECT]
NOUN
An amount of timber cut.
Origin
Old English fellan, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch vellen and German fällen, also to fall.
fell1fell2fell3
Pronunciation:
fell/fɛl/

NOUN
A hill or stretch of high moorland, especially in northern England:
Origin
Middle English: from Old Norse fjall, fell hill; probably related to German Fels rock.

Spellings & Pronunciations

Obergfell
Oberkfell

Nationality & Ethnicity

Germany, Prussia, Russia - Source: US Immigration and Census Records

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Early Obergefells

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