Maunsell is a surname, also encountered as 'Mansel', 'Maunsel', and 'Mansell', and in some cases a cognate of 'Mansfield'. Per MacLysaght, of Norman origin, and closely associated with County Limerick and County Tipperary since the seventeenth century, but on record there and County Wexford as early as the thirteenth century.[1] It has been stated that, the name being Norman in origin, numerous families of the name existed in Northern France for some generations prior to the Norman Conquest.[2] Several branches of the Irish family are extensively treated in Burke's Landed Gentry of Ireland.[3]
Notable people with the surname include:
Guy Maunsell (1884-1961), British designer of the Maunsell Sea Fort defence system
Richard Maunsell, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the South Eastern and Chatham Railway and Southern Railway
John Maunsell, Cleric, Judge as well as Secretary of State and Chancellor to Henry III
Maunsell Forts, sea forts of the United Kingdom during the Second World War
This page lists people with the surnameMaunsell. If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name(s) to the link.
Referencesedit
^The Surnames of Ireland, sixth edition, Edward MacLysaght, Irish Academic Press Ltd, 1997, pg 210
^History of the Family of Maunsell, Charles Albert Maunsell and Edward Phillips Stratham, Kegan Paul Trench & Co., 1917, pg 4
^A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Ireland, Sir Bernard Burke, Harrison & Sons, 1912, pp. 466-470
January 01, 1970
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