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02-11-2009, 08:00 PM
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Who wants to know what there last name means?
Hi fellow IISers
A week ago I went to my local libary and I borrowed a book called
"The Oxford Dictionary of English Surnames". If any one has English ancestry in their last name and they want to know where that name originated from or what it means just post in this thread and I will write back as quickly as I can. The book has 16,000 surnames in it so I may be able to find most.
Sean
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02-11-2009, 08:01 PM
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Originally Posted by seanliddelow
Hi fellow IISers
A week ago I went to my local libary and I borrowed a book called
"The Oxford Dictionary of English Surnames". If any one has English ancestry in their last name and they want to know where that name originated from or what it means just post in this thread and I will write back as quickly as I can.
Sean
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Sure...try the name "Head"...its weird.
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02-11-2009, 08:04 PM
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02-11-2009, 08:07 PM
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'Head' means "Dweller by the source of a stream or the head of a valley". The first Heads came from Norfolk, Devonshire, Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire.
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02-11-2009, 08:10 PM
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Originally Posted by FredSnerd
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'Hughes' means "heart,mind". They were originally called 'Hugo' and 'Huwes'. they came from many places in England and the name was popular after the 1066 Norman Conquest.
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02-11-2009, 08:12 PM
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Originally Posted by seanliddelow
'Head' means "Dweller by the source of a stream or the head of a valley". The first Heads came from Norfolk, Devonshire, Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire.
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Thanks Sean, I'll pass it on.
...There's a shire in WA called "Cockburn"...don't bother with that one tho, you'll be black-banned.
http://www.cockburn.wa.gov.au/
 
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02-11-2009, 08:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Nesti
Thanks Sean, I'll pass it on.
...There's a shire in WA called "Cockburn"...don't bother with that one tho, you'll be black-banned.
http://www.cockburn.wa.gov.au/
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I might not write that one
Lucky it isnt in their.
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02-11-2009, 08:15 PM
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Originally Posted by seanliddelow
I might not write that one
Lucky it isnt in their. |
Excuse me!!! It's pronounced co-burn thank you.
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02-11-2009, 08:16 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by seanliddelow
Hi fellow IISers
A week ago I went to my local libary and I borrowed a book called
"The Oxford Dictionary of English Surnames". If any one has English ancestry in their last name and they want to know where that name originated from or what it means just post in this thread and I will write back as quickly as I can. The book has 16,000 surnames in it so I may be able to find most.
Sean
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You would be interested in "One Name" studies then. That's taking surnames and studying their derivation. It's a very interesting area of reaearch and you can find out a lot of very interesting things. Ties in a lot with genealogy.
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02-11-2009, 08:18 PM
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Originally Posted by renormalised
You would be interested in "One Name" studies then. That's taking surnames and studying their derivation. It's a very interesting area of reaearch and you can find out a lot of very interesting things. Ties in a lot with genealogy.
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It does sound interesting cause 'Liddelow' is derived from 'Ludlow' which means "Loud-Hill". We were wool farmers for the kings of England.
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02-11-2009, 08:23 PM
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Originally Posted by seanliddelow
It does sound interesting cause 'Liddelow' is derived from 'Ludlow' which means "Loud-Hill". We were wool farmers for the kings of England.
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If you were a direct descendant of those farmers and they became prominent in the King's service, then your ancestors may have bore arms
Here's something which may interest you... Ludlow Family History
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02-11-2009, 08:24 PM
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Kelly, O'Kelly, O'Cealleigh etc. etc. should mean son of war or something similar.
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02-11-2009, 08:27 PM
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Originally Posted by renormalised
If you were a direct descendant of those farmers and they became prominent in the King's service, then your ancestors may have bore arms |
I think there was Ludlow who served in the army against Napaleon in the 1800s and there was a general in the English Civil war. There are some Ludlows descended from King Edward the 3rd.
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02-11-2009, 08:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Davros
Kelly, O'Kelly, O'Cealleigh etc. etc. should mean son of war or something similar.
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'O Kelly' means descendant of Ceallach (war). In Galloway and Isle of man.
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02-11-2009, 08:33 PM
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Originally Posted by renormalised
If you were a direct descendant of those farmers and they became prominent in the King's service, then your ancestors may have bore arms
Here's something which may interest you... Ludlow Family History |
Nicholas Ludlow lent the king money?  Well, we do have a castle. Im from the Shipton Moyne branch.
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02-11-2009, 08:33 PM
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Well darn, won't have my surname in it, since it's not English 
But I know what it means anyways 
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02-11-2009, 08:39 PM
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Originally Posted by dpastern
Well darn, won't have my surname in it, since it's not English
But I know what it means anyways
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Are you Scottish or Irish?
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02-11-2009, 08:40 PM
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Rowan? Wheeler?
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02-11-2009, 08:42 PM
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Originally Posted by seanliddelow
'Hughes' means "heart,mind". They were originally called 'Hugo' and 'Huwes'. they came from many places in England and the name was popular after the 1066 Norman Conquest.
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Thanks Sean. I'll tell me wife. She'll be thrilled.
What about Hardy. Thats the other side of her family
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02-11-2009, 08:47 PM
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Originally Posted by AstralTraveller
Rowan? Wheeler?
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Rowan isnt in there.
But Wheeler means "Wheel-maker, Wheel and Wheelright". They came from Sussex, Cambridgeshire and Surrey.
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