Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name for a coppersmith or
maker of copper cooking vessels, from German Kessel ‘kettle’,
‘cauldron’ + the agent suffix -man(n).
German
(Kesselmann) : habitational name from any of several places
named Kessel in Bavaria, Rhineland, Pomerania, or Silesia (see
Kessel).
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