Actually, I was trying to figure out the meaning of the fn Oshal (it is my great uncle's name). I thought it could be derived from the German surnames Oshel, Oschel, Oschell. I also saw that O'Shell was a variant of these names, but I also saw the name O'Shell on some Irish family crest web sites.
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