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Surnames: Cassell - Castle -Cashel - Kasel etc.,
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Cassell = caesealon (Celtic) for a stonewall fortress, usually the iron-age ring forts
that are common throughout Ireland, Scotland, Wales, England, Belgium, Holland, France,
Switzerland, Northern Italy, South-Western Germany, Southern Denmark and Spain. Wherever
there were a Celtic People there were the 'Caesealon'. The Capital city of the
Southern Irish province of Munster is Cashel, which itself is derived from the Word and
name Caesealon Muhans-tir, which means the 'Stonewall city of Munster'. You will
also notice that these countries are where you will find various dirrivations of the name
'Cassell'. An alternative etymology of 'Cassell' is from the Latin
'Castelum' which gave us the word and name 'Castle' which has always been
an alternative spelling of 'Cassell' - still you will notice that those people
with this spelling come from those Celtic parts of Europe - mostly the coastal fringe of
England (Isle of Man, Isle of Wight, Kent, Lancaster, Wales and the big Engli!
sh Ports), Scotland and Ireland.
So ethnically one might conclude that the Cassell family is Celtic. However, one can
argue that with the division of Europe into the current modern countries then you can
ethnically be divided into those respective countries of origen i.e. French, German,
Dutch, English, Welsh, Irish, Scottish etc. Still racially you may call yourself Celtic I
would imagine.