Origin of Dar

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Origin of Dar, Meaning of Dar

Origin: I have found two possible origins. The first (and most likely) has the first recorded name belonging to Fortun Ortiz Calderon. He was still-born and placed in a caldron until his cries alerted his parents that he was alive. A second, more obscure addition, has it belonging to descendants of Vela de Aragon, son of King Sancho Ramirez of Aragon.
Surnames: Caldarone, Calderon, Calderone
Submitted by: Jose Calderon

Origin of Dar, Meaning of Dar

Origin: Orgin is from Wales; migrated to Virginia.
Surnames: Godard, Goddard
Submitted by: Linda

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Origin: The name of Derby or Darby is said to have been derived from the residence of its first bearers in the city and county of that name in England. It is found on ancient records in the various forms of Dereby, Derbey, Darbey, Derbye, Darbye, Dorby, Darbie, Derbie, Darby, and Derby, of which the last two are the forms most generally in use in America today.
Surnames: Darby, Derby, Dereby, Derbey, Darbey, Derbye, Darbye, Dorby, Darbie, Derbie
Submitted by: Melissa McSwain

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Origin: From: Early History of Dyrham House, Dyrham Park, Glos

"The name DYRHAM is generally thought to derive from the Saxon ?deor-hamm? meaning deer enclosure. If so, then Dyrham is amongst the oldest deer parks in the country.

Another derivation is the British ?dwr? meaning water. The numerous springs in the hills form a brook which once ran close by the Stablrs.

Dyrham is first metioned in the Saxon Chronicle of 891 AD. This records that in the year 577, Ceaulin, the king of the West Saxons, and his son Cuthwine killed 3 British kings at Deorrhamm together with many of their followers, thereby capturing 3 important cities ? Cleancester, Cyrenceaster and Bathanceaster. The battle enabled the Saxons to reach the Bristol Channel and cut off the Welsh Britons from their allies in the South West and was therefore was a significant victory. Hinton Hill, a mile from Dyrham, has terraces and earthworks which are thought to be the remains of a Saxon Settlement."

Given the above information, it can be conjectured that the linguistic origins of the surname DERHAM may have led to more than one group of people with the surname who arose separately and unrelated. The Saxons were all over Britain and therefore so was their language. They were prolific on the east coast, which explains the large DER(E)HAM family (more about them later) in the villages of the same name in Norfolk. Regional accents provide for the modern day differences in spelling.

As for DURHAM, the above quote provides for the city in the north of England and also some people with this surname BUT as all we DERHAMS know, even today we can still spell out D-E-R-H-A-M to people and they STILL write it incorrectly! I have found my DERHAM ancestors on censuses as DURHAM, DARHAM and god knows what else.

There are also the 2 villages in Norfolk, England called East and West DEREHAM. The DER(E)HAM family were nobility and landowners in this area for many years - a few hundred. They intermarried with the HOWARDS, the BOLEYNS (aka the BULLENS), the CULPEPPERS, the DANVERS, and the VILLIERS families to name but a few. It is conjectured that when Francis Der(e)ham was executed on December 18th 1541 at Tyburn for having relations with King Henry the 8th's wife Katherine Howard, his (Francis Der(e)ham's) brothers fled Norfolk to the West Country (hence the concentration of Derhams in Somerset even now) and one to Ireland (expl?). Until recently this was just Family Oral History. My good old (!) Dad somehow came into possession of a book that documents the DERHAMS of Norfolk and gives a serious case for the DERHAMS of Somerset being descended from THOMAS, brother of FRANCIS DERHAM. Dad also has the family tree of DERHAMS in Bristol who link to our own line in North Curry. The data he has lines up with the data in the book ... the actual physical proof that links my Somerset and Bristol DERHAMS hasn't yet surfaced but the names in the book and Dad's family tree are almost a perfect match. Watch this space! For those of you also in my line, you will have noticed the intermarriages mentioned above - we might be related to not only headless Francis, but also Katherine Howard, Anne Boleyn, another of Katherine's boyfriend called Thomas Culpepper and Henry VIII by marriage! Away with ye, peasants!

I was once told that DERHAM is a possible translation of the surname FARMER - from which language, I don't know.

There is the French surname DE RHAM and the dutch VAN DER HAM.

I recently found a website (on the DERHAM Links Page) concerning an IRANIAN by whose name was DERHAM. This is the most remarkable information I have come across yet!

There was also a vast estate in Ireland called DERHAM - but it has yet to be proven whether the family that named it was Irish or English (possibly a link back to the brother of Francis Dereham?)

From Phillip Derham:

Of Jutish stock - allegedly from a 9th century Jutish family (headed by Alaric?) in what is now Norfolk.

In the C14 and C15 served the Dukes of Norfolk as major domos

An alternative derivation of the surname is a mis-spelling of the name of a famous (?C8-9th) battle in south west England called "Deoram" or something similar.

Where factual evidence is available, a Derham was the English ambassador to the Papal Court during Charles II's reign, but we have been unable to link him to our family.

My (Phillip) great grandfather, Frederick who was born in England, made and lost money in the 1890s land boom here, and, while he had the money, applied for a grant of a coat of arms. That was granted, but with a different crest to that of the C17 Ambassador, suggesting that my great grandfather was unable to identify a relationship over the 2 centuries. Interestingly, an Irish Derham family also has a similar coat of arms, but instead of one deer's head, their shield has 3 deer's heads and a different crest.
Surnames: Derham, Dyrham, Dereham, Durham, Darham
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Origin: Always researching the surname DARLING. My line begins in Scotland mid 1600's runs throughout New England and then further. Always willing to help other DARLING and related searchers and trade information.
Surnames: Darling
Submitted by: Lisa

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Origin: I am looking for info ON my grandfather and my blood line HIs name was phil or philias Bedard he walked to washington around 1900 from mass, it is said he was born in canada on augest 17 1877 or 1872 not clear on the year.
Surnames: Bedard
Submitted by: Bill Bedard

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Origin: Much of the research I have on the name Dardis stems from Eire, but I want to know if there is any infomation priod to this? can anyone help?
Surnames: Dardis
Submitted by: Vincent J Dardis

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Origin: James Pendarvis from Alachua County County, Florida, b abt 1832, d abt 1866 in Alachua County, Fl. Married Nancy Williams, b? d 1872 Alachua Co., FL.
Surnames: PENDARVIS
Submitted by: Pat

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Origin: Darby also has the variant of Dermot which comes from McDermot and MacDermot. These are derived from the scot surnames MacDiarmid and O' Diarmid. These are septs of the clan Campbell.
Surnames: Darby, Demot, Diarmid, Campbell
Submitted by: Tom Darby

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Origin: Merson
Surnames: Darby
Submitted by: Danny

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Origin: I was told by my grandfather that the name comes from Russia, or somewhere in the old USSR. I believe that it may have been from the Ukraine area.
Surnames: Bondaruk
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Origin of Dar, Meaning of Dar

Origin: The oak-hill; from an, the; dar, an oak, and ton, a hill.
Surnames: Andarton
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Origin: This is a Norse (or Viking) placename --by means town, so this is literally, Newtown!. There is a dale in Yorkshire called Newby Dale. (My Dad's name was Dale Newby :)
Surnames: Newby, Chase, Rockafellow, Darling, Estle . . .
Submitted by: Laurie

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Origin: Surname: Madariaga
Origin: Basque, Biscay-Spain
Meaning: site with pears, forest of pears.
X-XI century
Surnames: Madariaga
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Origin: bandarra
Surnames: Bandarra
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Origin: As far back as I can go... Sonnadara is a last name that comes from my family and my family only. My family originates from Sri Lanka. The name is Sinhalese (to the best of my knowledge).

The last bit of the name suggests something to do with "love".
Surnames: Sonnadara
Submitted by: Kanishka

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Origin: Darras, is an Arabic word, and it means the person who threshs the wheat.
the roots of this family if from a small village called Walaja near Jerusalem - Palestine.
Surnames: Darras
Submitted by: Said Darras

Origin of Dar, Meaning of Dar

Origin: Meaning in Portuguese
Darak significa pente ou escova utilizada na retirada e manuseio da l? de carneiro.
Darakjian s?o as pessoas, grupos ou fam?lias que tinham esta profiss
Surnames: Darakjian
Submitted by: Sarkis

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Origin: The origins of the name Darvill(e) must be found in France as the family was quite positively Huguenot.Those who fled to England joined the (French) Huguenot churches. Eventually they were absorbed by the Non-Roman Catholic Churches.
Surnames: Darvill, Darville
Submitted by: Anthony J. Bosschaert

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Origin: lithuania
Surnames: dargis
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Origin of Dar, Meaning of Dar

Origin: Apparently the Name "Dargie" comes from ancient Norse for some-one who works with the metal COPPER.

Not a Copper Smith but more the smelting process. I stumbled across this by accident when researching my wife's maiden name whilst in Norway.

It was quite a revelation to also find that her first name "Joyce" was also ancient Norse for a coppersmith...

Imagine then the fact she has Auburn hair.. I always rib her that it "must have rubbed off" on her ancesters..
Surnames: Dargie
Submitted by: Geoff' Frost

Origin of Dar, Meaning of Dar

Origin: Possibly came from France, but from way back.
Surnames: Darroch
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Origin of Dar, Meaning of Dar

Origin: MacLYSAGHT,Surnames of Ireland
Pg 75
(Mac)Darragh..Mac Dubhdara mod McDara
pg 88 Dorragh?.West Ulster Variant of Darragh
MacLYSAGHT, More Irish Famlies
Pg 76
Darragh,oakes ?Before reading these books(Johnsons Scottish Clans and Mac Giolla Domnaigh Some Anglicized Surnames in Ireland for which he states?I am not able to support the statements with any first hand evidence?.) I had thought the MacDarraghs to be of native Irish stock:if Wolf is right in equating the early form MacDwdara with MacDubhdara then it certainly was in Ireland before the plantations of Ulster.
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I believe MacLYSAGHT was on track at this point but others have led him to stray to the Scottish origin. The Annals of the Four Masters as well as the Annals of Ulster show us the family of ODubhdara as being members of the Clann Lugain and Kings of Fermanagh with a direct descent from Colla da Crich and on to Conn of the Hundred Battles and Updar King of Alba

Here is some further research on the surname. Is it Irish or Scottish??What is common among the two historys is that the name comes from Dubhdara. Here is the earliest (961AD)Dubhdara that I have seen...961AD ? Egneach and his son, i.e. Dubhdara are killed. During the the tenth, eleventh and twelfth centuries after Christ we read in the annals the names of many head chiefs (kings) of the Fermanagh territory. All these bear the surnames of one or other of three families: ? Dubhdara (O'Darrah), ? h?ignigh (Hegney, Heaney), ? Maolruanaidh (Mulrooney, Rooney). All three belong to Clann Lugain, that branch of the Oriel Ui Cremhthainn who were driven from the Clogher area by the Cineal Eoghain of Aileach., son of Dalach, lord of Oirghialla, .

o Fir Managh - Co. Fermanagh. Throughout the 11th and 12th centuries the Kings of Fermanagh - O'hEignigh, O'Maolruanaidh and O'Dubhdara - were drawn from the Airghialla, its Clann Lugainn branch, which is stated in the early genealogies to go back to one of the three Collas, i.e. Colla Fochr?th. The O'Heany or Hegney (? hEignigh) and Mulrooney (Maolruanaidh) septs were noted as kings of Fermanagh (Fer Manach) until becoming tributary to the Maguires (Meicc h-Uidir) around 1202.
The annals cite:
For 1009, Cathal, mac Duibh Dara, tigherna Fer Manach, died.
For 1053, Niall h-?a ?cnigh, r? Fer Manach, was slain.
For 1053/57, Domhnall mac Maol Ruanaidh, tigherna Fer Manach (Fir Mhanach).
For 1076, Giolla Chr?osd ua Duibh Dara, tigherna Fer Manach.
For 1095, Ua h-Eiccnigh, tigherna Fer Manach, was slain.
For 1118, Laidhgn?n Ua Duibh Dara, tigherna Fer Manach.
For 1126, H. Mael Ruanaigh ri Fer Manach,
For 1127, Gilla Crist ua h-Eicnigh ri Fear Manach & airdrigh Airgiall.
For 1128, Faelan Ua n-Duibh Dhara righ Fer Manach.

The question of Scots-vs-Irish becomes very difficult when following the movements back and forth between Scotland and Ireland. Two points ..1.One history claims The Picts were ALLOWED by the IRISH to settle in Northern Scotland with the stipulation that their rulers married Irish Royal women. In the case of the Three Colla line it appears as if it was reversed. The Irish men of this line married many Pictish Royal daughters. Therefore the children of these unions were half Irish. The common historys(with the exception of the Roman theory) show that the three Collas, which the ODubhdara and McDonald Clan both claim descent from, can be traced back to these Pictish Kings(The three Collas were the sons of Eocaidh Dublein, brother of Fiachaid Sraibtine, both sons of Carbri Lificar. The Collas mother was Oilech (aka Alechia), daughter of Ugari (aka Updar) the King of Alba (Scotland), and wife of Eocaidh. Their names were Carrell, Muredach, and Aedh.).Carbri Lifechar(268) son of Cormac (222-266)son of Art(166-195)son of Conn of the Hundred Battles(123-157)What was once Pictish merges with Irish and becomes Pict/Irish. The offsping of this Union due to later geographical location attempt to unmerge with the McDonald Clan claiming descent from the Scottish and the Odubhdara descent from the Irish. Yet as one can see they are of the same stock. It would appear to me that the question of Scot or Irish is a mute point. 2. One must go to the earliest listing of the surname to try to determine its origin. Here in Ireland we have an actual historical listing in 961 of Dubhdara in Fermanagh and U984 Darroch in Derlas. In the descent from the McDonalds and Darroch theory we have no such evidence except folklore. The McDonalds however claim descent from Colla Uais while the ODubhdara are shown as descending from Colla de Crich(Fochrith) If that is the case then one must ask how Darrach is ODubhdara or how is Darragh from McDarrach. To further complicate things I have found in the Annals of Ulster a listing for the FIRST Darrach I have seen. U984.2 Dub Darrach son of Domnalloin King of Derlas was killed by his own people. This line also descends from Ulla de Crich. Why the son of Egneach, was named Dubhdara is unknown and the only thing we know for sure is that Dubh means Black and Daire or Dara is oak.
Another avenue to pursue is the variation of the name Darrow and its relationship to Durrow Abbey which as history tells us was built on a great Oak Plain('Ach' in Gaelic also means 'a field') which was a holy place to the Druids and thus chosen for the Abbey. I at first started to think that Darragh and Darroch were two distinct names. Darragh from Dubhdara(Black Oak) and Darroch from Daire Ach(Oak Field) but here again we are back in Ireland with a claim that Darrow and Darragh are a form of Durrow which means ?Oak Plain? To much like ?Oak Field to not be connected.Perhaps our name is rooted there. Another is Cill Dara (Kildare) meaning ?Church of Oak? which has many Abotts who bear the name Dubh?
In conclusion I must say that I have seen no Scots historys that show the Darrach or Darrock descent from the McDonalds as claimed. We do however have The Annals of the Four Masters and The Annals of Ulster that place both the Darroch and ODubhdara names in Ireland as early as the eight century.
Note: some historys list the father of the three Collas as Eochaid Duibhlein is this perhaps the start of the Duibh or Dubh naming.

Muredach Colla da Crich
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Fiac
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Crimthann Liath
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Ui Chrimthainn
Ui Rudagain
Ocooney
Ui Ceannfada
Leithrid Luigeach
Sil nDamine

Clann Cormac
Clann Lugain(? Dubhdara (O'Darrah), ? h?ignigh (Hegney, Heaney), ? Maolruanaidh (Mulrooney, Rooney)).
Clann Nadsluaig
Ui Loingsigh
Maguire
MacMahon
MacCafferty
MacDonnel of Clan Kelly

An early genealogy for Clann Lugain: (Rawlinson)
Lugain, son of Irgalach, son of Eignich, son of Cormac, son of Fergus, son of Aed, son of Cormac, son of Cairpre Dam Argait.

An early Genelach Clainne Lug?in .i. Fer Manach (Rawlinson) Gilla Coluim m. Gillai Cr?st m. ?icnich m. D?laich m. Meicc h-Uidir m. Cernaich m. Lug?in m. ?rgalaich m. Feich?n m. Cormaic m. Fergusa m. Cairpri Daim Argait m. Echdach m. Crimthaind m. F?icc m. Dega Duirn m. Rochada m. Colla Fochr?th.
Fernmag, or Fernmaighe - The area around Lough Ooney, aka Loch Uaithne near Smithborough in the barony of Dartry, co. Monaghan, was apparently referred to at an early date as Fernmag or Fer Fernmaighe
For 1097, Lochlainn Ua Duibh Dara, tigherna Fernmaighe, was slain by the Uibh Briuin Br?ifne

Fir Managh
For 1009/10, Cathal son of Dub Dara, king of Fir Manach, died.
? For 1076, There were killed Gairbeith ua Innrechtaigh, king of U? M?ith?by the men of Mide, and Gilla Cr?st ua Duibdara, king of Fir Manach?in Daiminis, by the Fir Manach.
For 1118, Laidcn?n ua Duibdara, king of Fir Manach, was killed by the U? Fhiachrach and Fir na Cra?bhe\
? For 1128, A leap year and embolismal year. The men of Magh Itha, i.e. Domnall ua Gailmredhaigh, and the Cen?l Moain stormed a house against the king of Fir Manach, i.e. Fael?n ua Duibdara, and he fell by them, and a number of the nobles of the Fir Manach with him.
Fir Lurg - barony of Lurg in Co. Fermanagh. The sept of O Maolduin (O'Muldoon) is noted here as chiefs (and early kings) of Lurg, aka Fir Lurg, Fear Luirg or Fer Luircc
For 1000, Dubh Dara ua Maoile Duin, tighearna Fer Luirg, was slain.

AI1118 Laidcn?n Ua Duib Dara was slain by the U? Fhiachrach of Ard Srath

aColla da Crioch, or Colla of the Two Countries - Eire (Ireland) and Alba (Scotland). Colla was one of three sons of Eochaid Duibhlein of Eire and Aileach, daughter of Updar, a Pictish King of Alba.,

M1093.10
Dubhdara, the grandson of Aighennain, lord of Luighne, died.
M1146.5
A predatory excursion was made by Tighearnan Ua Ruairc across Magh-nAei, to Loch-Long and Dun-Imghain; he destroyed and burned four ships, and slew the son of Ua Maeleachlainn, who was defending them, and many others. Gillabrighde, son of Dubhdara, chief of Muintir-Eolais, was wounded; and he afterwards died at his house, having plundered Cluain-Coirpthe some time before.
LC1076.1
Gillachrist O'Duibhdara, king of Feara-Manach,
11] occisus est, in Daimhinis, by the Feara-Manach
Surnames: Darragh
Submitted by: Richard Dorrough