What's the origin of your family name?

[Lady Whistledown]

Sparrow: from the bird, indicated a homely or chirpy person

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Barnes: either someone who lives or works in a barn (amazing) or the servant of a berne, meaning an upper class individual.

 

[Lurker]

Mine's apparently a locational name from an ancient chapelry in Leicestershire, although my family are from Waterford and that's where the highest concentration of 'us' are.

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That's a frighteningly accurate website?
We have an extremely unusual family name ... virtually unique I would think, and when I typed it in .... it pinpointed the areas where the whole family currently reside!!


Big brother really is watching us ....

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Hart, derived from the pre 7th century word "heorot", given to a man who was a fast runner.

 

[Braders]

broad meadow it seems


o-kay then ...

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Mine is a mis-spelt suburb of Nottingham. It used to be the home of three breweries. The last one, Shipstone's, closed in 1991.

Top UK cities to find it:-
NOTTINGHAM , EAST MIDLANDS , UNITED KINGDOM
LEICESTER , EAST MIDLANDS , UNITED KINGDOM
BIRMINGHAM , WEST MIDLANDS , UNITED KINGDOM
TAMWORTH , WEST MIDLANDS , UNITED KINGDOM
LOUGHBOROUGH , EAST MIDLANDS , UNITED KINGDOM

My own direct ancestors came from Hinckley, Leicestershire. The Birmingham lot are all descended from my lot.

 

[astevens76]

Definition: A variant of Stephens, derived from the given name Stephen, meaning "crown, wreath, or garland." A patronymic name for "son of Stephen."

Surname Origin: English

That'll do.

 

[The Merry Prankster]

Potter: from the wizard.

 

[Mendoza]

Bringer of crispy duck and prawn crackers

 

[Norman Baker suck my lozenge]

One of the most ancient of English surnames,referring to an area of ground covered by tree stumps.

 

[Hiney]

I know it's not strictly your name, but Hiney is occasionally used by Americans as slang for their arse, which I rather like

Indeed.

 

[Gwylan]

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That's interesting


BRIGHTON , SOUTH EAST , UNITED KINGDOM
GREENEVILLE , TENNESSEE , UNITED STATES
GRAVESEND , SOUTH EAST , UNITED KINGDOM
DARTFORD , SOUTH EAST , UNITED KINGDOM
PORTSMOUTH , SOUTH EAST , UNITED KINGDOM


There are only 87 on the electoral roll according to 192.com and only a handful of us in Brighton - doesn't say much for the other places.

 

[tonymgc]

12th century Irish originating in County Tyrone

 

[Cian]

Dark haired. Accurate too.

 

[Hiney]

Mine's apparently a locational name from an ancient chapelry in Leicestershire, although my family are from Waterford and that's where the highest concentration of 'us' are.

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LOADS of Hines in Australia.

As well as being servants, we obviously tried to better ourselves by becoming criminals, only to fail MISERABLY and be deported!

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Bringer of crispy duck and prawn crackers

How come there are NONE left in China?

 

[Daffy Duck]

Mines originally French and has something to do with shagging sheep!!!!

 

[Daffy Duck]

....or maybe I should have put

 

[Trufflehound]

Mine translates as: "He who plugs his new book in his signature."

 

[Sam Ovett]

Evening Mr Merrick ..

Nope, my surname is Ovett, as shown in my name ¬_¬