Does anyone know any people with last name martell in nova scotia im looking for relatives?

Try a web-based phone book for living ones.





Keep in mind that not everyone with the same last name is a relative (See the next section), and most of your relatives are not named "Martell".





You should have 16 great-great-grandparents. Unless someone married a cousin, 15 of them were not born Martell, and only one of the 15 - the woman who married your GGF Martell - became a Martell by marriage. Most of those 16 GGP's had children, and only one of the 8 couples named their children Martell; so 7/8ths of your relatives, on average, are not Martells.





That said,


http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.c鈥?/a>


has 791 dead people with that surname and birth place "Nova Scotia" and another 30 with BP "NS".





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Martell - Origin





English, French, and German: variant spelling of Martel.





Catalan: metonymic occupational name for a smith, or nickname for a forceful person, from martell 鈥榟ammer鈥?(Late Latin martellus).





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Martel





English and German: from a medieval personal name, a pet form of Martin or Marta.





English and French: metonymic occupational name for a smith or a nickname for a forceful person, from Old French martel 鈥榟ammer鈥?(Late Latin martellus). Charles Martel, the grandfather of Charlemagne, gained his byname from the force with which he struck down his enemies in battle.





Spanish and Portuguese: from Portuguese martelo, Old Spanish martel 鈥榟ammer鈥?(Late Latin martellus), or an Iberianized form of the Italian cognate Martello.





Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4


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So, anyone from 8 - 12 countries whose father's name was "Martin" or who was forceful might end up named Martell. It isn't as common as Johnson or Smith, but just because someone is named Martell doesn't mean you are related.


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Here are the first 20 of 200+ people named Martell in NS in 1881, from





http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/f鈥?/a>





One of the 200+ might be your great great grandfather.





1. Charles H. MARTELL - 1881 Canadian Census / Nova Scotia


Gender: Male Birth: %26lt;1848%26gt; Cape Breton, %26lt;Nova Scotia%26gt;





2. Annie MARTELL - 1881 Canadian Census / Nova Scotia


Gender: Female Birth: %26lt;1854%26gt; Nova Scotia





3. Robt. MARTELL - 1881 Canadian Census / Nova Scotia


Gender: Male Birth: %26lt;1833%26gt; Nova Scotia





4. Maria MARTELL - 1881 Canadian Census / Nova Scotia


Gender: Female Birth: %26lt;1836%26gt; Nova Scotia





5. Henry MARTELL - 1881 Canadian Census / Nova Scotia


Gender: Male Birth: %26lt;1856%26gt; Nova Scotia





6. Ellen MARTELL - 1881 Canadian Census / Nova Scotia


Gender: Female Birth: %26lt;1857%26gt; Nova Scotia





7. V'atis MARTELL - 1881 Canadian Census / Nova Scotia


Gender: Male Birth: %26lt;1858%26gt; Nova Scotia





8. Ellwood MARTELL - 1881 Canadian Census / Nova Scotia


Gender: Male Birth: %26lt;1860%26gt; Nova Scotia





9. Alexander MARTELL - 1881 Canadian Census / Nova Scotia


Gender: Male Birth: %26lt;1862%26gt; Nova Scotia





10. Nelson MARTELL - 1881 Canadian Census / Nova Scotia


Gender: Male Birth: %26lt;1866%26gt; Nova Scotia





11. Jessie MARTELL - 1881 Canadian Census / Nova Scotia


Gender: Female Birth: %26lt;1869%26gt; Nova Scotia





12. Harris MARTELL - 1881 Canadian Census / Nova Scotia


Gender: Male Birth: %26lt;1872%26gt; Nova Scotia





13. Susan MARTELL - 1881 Canadian Census / Nova Scotia


Gender: Female Birth: %26lt;1879%26gt; Nova Scotia





14. Nathaniel MARTELL - 1881 Canadian Census / Nova Scotia


Gender: Male Birth: %26lt;1846%26gt; Nova Scotia





15. Maggy H. MARTELL - 1881 Canadian Census / Nova Scotia


Gender: Female Birth: %26lt;1854%26gt; Nova Scotia





16. Charles MARTELL - 1881 Canadian Census / Nova Scotia


Gender: Male Birth: %26lt;1874%26gt; Nova Scotia





17. Aubrey MARTELL - 1881 Canadian Census / Nova Scotia


Gender: Male Birth: %26lt;1875%26gt; Nova Scotia





18. George MARTELL - 1881 Canadian Census / Nova Scotia


Gender: Male Birth: %26lt;1878%26gt; Nova Scotia





19. Amy MARTELL - 1881 Canadian Census / Nova Scotia


Gender: Female Birth: %26lt;1881%26gt; Nova Scotia





20. James MARTEL - 1881 Canadian Census / Nova Scotia


Gender: Male Birth: %26lt;1851%26gt; Nova Scotia|||I did, years ago. Try Facebook, maybe.