What's the origin of your family name?

[Foolg]

These names are generally tied to the meaning "people's army" and to emigrations from northern Europe to England during the eleventh (with William the Conqueror) and sixteeth (as a result of religious persecution) centuries.

 

[JGaleBHA]

I'm 'a stranger'

 

[brakespear]

even my bloody name means 'admin staff'

 

[Spicy]

Mine means: heathen but I prefer this version: First found in Sussex where they held a family seat from very early times and were granted lands by Duke William of Normandy for their assistance at the Battle of Hastings! What I need to know is why am I not living on those lands now?

 

[Uncle Buck]

12th Tribe of Israel.

 

[Spicy]

12th Tribe of Israel.

Got your own tribe eh Unc? RESPECT MAN!

 

[Aldo]

defender of mankind, warrior

 

[ryeseagull]

Hat maker.

 

[tedebear]

Being Australian I had (prior to marriage) a very English surname, and my mothers maiden name is very English as well. In fact unsuprisingly I have a very English heritage

Forgot to add the surnames are all of the surname being what your livelyhood was...

 

[Taybha]

a pair of socks

 

[joker]

Mine comes from a long line of flour makers originating in louth in Lincolnshire, there is still a mill there with an upstairs delivery window for bags of wheat with our name on the doors, and ironically my great grandmother was Sarah Jane Cuttress who was the heir to the Forfars fortunes so I'm told, then she went and married my great grandfather and got struck out of the will

 

[Bob!]

Gear signifies all sorts of wearing apparel and equipments for horses and men, from the Saxon gearrian, to make ready; and the name was probably given to one who took charge of and superintended the gear.

 

[Mackenzie]

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 ....

Ditto.

My surname is also unique, the only place you find it is where I have lived!

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

Ditto.

My surname is also unique, the only place you find it is where I have lived!

Skip? Dump? Caravan?

 

[Carrot Cruncher]

I'm not playing!

 

[Insel affe]

My lot came over from France in 1066.

Snap something like "apple orchard" in french

 

[User Removed]

I'm not playing!

Nor am I!

My surname is so unique I would give myself away!!

 

[withdeanwombat]

Well.the family heirloom is an extremely tall toupee.

 

[Mackenzie]

Skip? Dump? Caravan?

Sorry mate you've lost me there. Are you saying the three places I've lived are in a skip, dump and caravan? Why would you say that?

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

I know the exact person my surname O'Loughlin comes from.

A.D. 983. Lochlainn, Lord of Corcomroe, and Maoilseachlainn, the son of Cosrach, died.

That's taken from The Annals of the Four Masters. A book of works put together by monks that details the happenings of the noble families of Ireland.

So that's the very person who began the line of those with that surname.

Which I think is pretty darn cool that it's not a generic job or location name but an actual individual.