Jessel

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Type Surname (from given name)
Usage English

Meaning & History

From a pet-form of Jessop (a medieval male personal name - a different form of Joseph). A literary bearer is Miss Jessel, the governess who has charge of the two troubled and enigmatic children in Henry James's ghost story 'The Turn of the Screw' (1898).
Added 9/27/2013 by babycrookston