Total Records: 20
Origin of Eth, Meaning of Eth
Origin: Germany
Surnames: Goethe, Goette, Goettee, Gothe, G?the, Otto, Lauer, Eggert, Thursam, Thuersam, Tiersam
Submitted by: Allison Goettee Cate |
Origin of Eth, Meaning of Eth
Origin: I'm posting this in response to the great number of inquiries I deal with about the origin and meaning of Meredith. Firstly, contrary to a lot of information I've seen (including the American Websters dictionary), the name has nothing to do with the sea whatsoever. It does not mean 'Guardian of the Sea', Protector of the Sea or any other such combination. The original spelling was Maredudd - pronounced 'Mredeeth'. That's right - there's no mention of the 'E' following the 'M'. In the Welsh language and in English speaking Wales, the accent and stress is always on the Penultimate syllable, the modern pronunciation is therefore - 'Mer-ed'-ith. The incorrect pronunciation that strikes the name outside of the Welsh borders is the one widely accepted in the U.S. and the rest of Britain, which curiously causes 'Merry' to be a suitable shortening?! To those of us who are Welsh it is grating to the ears to say the least to hear our name so mutilated! Other seemingly unrelated but correct pet or short forms of the name are PRIDDY, PREEDY, PREDDY, BEDO, BEDDOES etc. The final element of the original spelling, 'udd' means 'lord'. The same element is present in the ancient form of Griffith i.e. Gruffudd. The first part of the name has often been
Surnames: Maredudd, Meredith, Meredydd, Meredyth, Merideth
Submitted by: Richard J. Meredith |
Origin of Eth, Meaning of Eth
Origin: The POSTLETHWAIT is a well known name in the Millom, Cumberland (now Co Cumbria), England. Most of the current family in the U.S. date back to JOHN POSTLETHWAIT who settled in the early 1700s in the Lancaster Co., PA area.
Surnames: Postlethwait, Postlewait
Submitted by: Dilmond D. Postlewait |
Origin of Eth, Meaning of Eth
Origin: This was my Grandmother's Middle name.
Surnames: FETHON
Submitted by: Elizabeth Richardson Savage |
Origin of Eth, Meaning of Eth
Origin: Need info on Martha or Rebecka Lethco, who married Peter Baumgardner,in Va. In the 1800's. Thanks
Surnames: Lethco
Submitted by: Elizabeth Baumgardner |
Origin of Eth, Meaning of Eth
Origin: Judith Carol(Smeeth)Carter daughter of Bertram Lawrence Smeeth and Marjorie Judith Ward grandaughter of Jesse Smeeth and Frances Maud Carnduff
Surnames: Smeeth
Submitted by: Judy Carter |
Origin of Eth, Meaning of Eth
Origin: Searching for vieth's from missouri
Surnames: Steve Vieth
Submitted by: steve vieth |
Origin of Eth, Meaning of Eth
Origin: Elizabeth Fethon Jack was my Grandmothers name. No on knows where the Fethon came from.
Surnames: FETHON
Submitted by: Elizabeth Richardson Savage |
Origin of Eth, Meaning of Eth
Origin: My father always told me that it was an old Scandinavian name and that it meant "by the racecourse".
Surnames: Hesketh
Submitted by: David |
Origin of Eth, Meaning of Eth
Origin: From a town in Strathern, Scotland, on the river Tay; derived from Aber, as given above, and nethy, in the Gaelic, dangerous. Nith or Nithy, is also the name of a river in the south of Scotland, and the name may have been taken from a town at or near its mouth--Abernithy.
Surnames: Abernethy
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Origin of Eth, Meaning of Eth
Origin: ABERNETHY-(beyond the Nethy)-a surname derived from a barony of that name in Lower Strathea n, Perthshire, which, was possessed in the reign of William I. by Orme, the son of Hugh, who was styled Abbot of Abernethy, and whose descendants assumed the name of Abernethy. In 1288 Sir William de Abernethy, the first of the family styled of Saltoun, and Sir Patrick de Abernethy, lay in wait for Duncan earl of Fife, one of the regents of the kingdom during the minority of Margaret of Norway, at Potpollock, and murdered him. William was seized by Sir Andrew Moray of Bothwell and condemned to perpetual imprisonment, and Patrick fled into France and died there. [Fordun] His nephew, Alex, ander de Abernethy, in 1308, along with Robert de Keith, Adam de Gordon, and other leading barons, were sureties to Edward for the good behaviour of William de Lambyrton, bishop of St. Andrews. [Ppmer's Faedera, tome iii. p. 82.] The same individual was appointed by Edward warden of the country between the Forth and the mountains of Scotland, 15th June, 1310. [Ibid. tome iii. p. 211.] His eldest daughter Margaret was married to John Stewart, earl of An4us, who got with her the barony of Abernethy, the superiority of which is still possessed by the family of Douglas, (nofy Hamilton,) as representatives of the earl of Angus. To the famous letter to the Pope, drawn up by the barons of Scotland at the parliament of Aberbrothic 6th April, 1320, appears the name of William do Abernethy, lord of Saltoun. He was the son of the first Sir William de Abernethy of Saltoun. His son, also named Sir William, appears in the list of noble persons who fought at the battle of Halidon hill, 19th July, 1333, [Hails' Annals, vol. ii. p. 307,] from which disastrous field he appears to have escaped. He had from David II. a grant of the lands of Rothiemay in Aberdeenshire. George Abernethy of Saltoun, his son, was taken prisoner at the fatal fight of Durham, 17th Oct., 1346. At the battle of Harlaw 24th July 1411, William Abernethy, son and heir to the Lord Saltoun, was one of the principal leaders, and was slain. But although he is called "the worthy Lord Saltone," and of his death it is said in the popular ballad,
"And on the other side war lost
Into the field that dismal day,
Chief men of worth of mickle cost,
To be lamented sair for aye,
The lord Saltone of Rothiemay,
A man of inicht and mickle main,
Great dolour was for his decay
That sae unhappily was slain;"
yet the peerage was not conferred upon the family till 28th June, 1445,-34 years later,-in the person of Laurence Abernethy of Saltoun and Rothiemay, created Baron Saltoun of Abernethy, and as the said William Abernethy predeceased his father, he was called " the Lord Saltone" only by courtesy. This Laurence Abernethy of Saitoun and Rothiemay, first Lord Saltoun, was the twelfth in descent from Orm the sounder of the family. Margaret, the eldest daughter of the seventh Lord Saltoun, married Sir Alexander Fraser of Philorth in Aberdeenshire, and their son, Sir Alexander Fraser, became the tenth Lord Saltoun, and his descendants succeeded to the title. The brother of his mother, John, eighth Lord Saltoun, sold the estate of Rothiemay. The family of Abernethy is now represented by the Frasers of Philorth, lords Saitoun.--See SALTOUN.-The parish and village of Abernethy are of great antiquity. The latter was at one period the capital of the Pictish kings. It is named by various English writers and by Fordoun as the place where Malcolm Canmore concluded a peace with William the Conqueror in 1072, delivered to him hostages, and did homage to him for the lands which he held in England. But although now a mean village, "it would appear," says Dr. Jamieson, "that it was a royal residence in the reign of one of the Pictish princes who bore the name of Nethan or Nectan. The Pictish chronicle has ascribed the foundation of Abernethy to Nethan I., in the third year of his reign, corresponding with A.D. 458. The Register of St. Andrews, with greater probability, gives it to Nethan Ii. about the year 600." We find that while the church of Abernethy was granted by William 1, in 1178, to his foundation of the abbey of Aberbrothock, Orme, abbot of Abernethy, granted the half of the tithes, of the property of himself and his heirs to the same institution. The other half belonged to the Culdees, as in ancient times Abernethy was a principal seat of the Culdees, who had a university at Abernethy, which in 1273 was turned into a priory of canons regular of St. Augustine. It is a burgh of barony, and has a charter from Archibald, earl of Angus, lord of Abernethy, dated November 29, 1628. The title of Lord Abernethy was conferred on the earl of Angus when created marquis of Douglas in 1633, and is now one of the inferior titles of the duke of Hamilton as representative and chief of the illustrious house of Douglas.
Surnames: Abernethy
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Origin of Eth, Meaning of Eth
Origin: Hasketh/Hesketh
Viking or Danish origin hes + skeidt meaning
horse track/ race track
varitaions Heskaithe, Heskaite
Surnames: Hasketh
Submitted by: glitz |
Origin of Eth, Meaning of Eth
Origin: Pither is a common name in Berkshire and north Hampshire, earliest forms Pyther or Pether C1600 and before. They appear in my experience to have been involved in cattle trading. There is also an early occurance of the name in Somerset about North Petherton Hundred. The latter appear to have disappeared and it is plausible that they migrated to Berkshire with drovers. Earliest Pether I have found was at the time of Henry VIII in the area of Shinfield/ Arbourfield in Berkshire.
Surnames: Pether Peather Peether Pithar Pyther pather
Submitted by: L Whittinger |
Origin of Eth, Meaning of Eth
Origin: HEDGEPETH (...PATH): ORIGIN-BRITISH-a path protected by hedges. (makes sense, huh?)
Surnames: hedgepeth
Submitted by: g. (hedgepeth) jens |
Origin of Eth, Meaning of Eth
Origin: Nemeth (Nemet) is a Hungarian name. It's meaning : german. It's the 9th most common name in Hungary
Surnames: Nemeth
Submitted by: Zolt?n N?meth |
Origin of Eth, Meaning of Eth
Origin: Well... My first name is actually Ralon believe it or not! When I asked my mom about it she said my sisters made it up by combining Roland with Ryan. I've never met anyone that has heard or met ppl with my name. I even checked my culture which is Indian and no one seems to recall the name. My name cannot be ethnic because I am a Catholic.
Surnames: Nazareth
Submitted by: Ralon Nazareth |
Origin of Eth, Meaning of Eth
Origin: Bethoney surname is an anglicized version of the Lebanese surname, which originated in Lebanon, specifically from the village of Deir al Ahmer, near Baalbek. A variation of the name Bethoney is Bithoney--memebers with either surname are from the same family and are related.
Surnames: Bethoney, Bithoney
Submitted by: Bethoney |
Origin of Eth, Meaning of Eth
Origin: The name or word LANDRATH spelled with an "a" is Dutch or Flemish. to indicate sometime a collective court; at other times an individual having duties connected with records of land, titles and agricultural advancement.
Surnames: Landreth
Submitted by: Eugene Landreth |
Origin of Eth, Meaning of Eth
Origin: I read somewhere that it was Scandinavian meaning "racecourse" or "horsetrack"
Surnames: Hesketh
Submitted by: Henry |
Origin of Eth, Meaning of Eth
Origin: The German family name Goethe is classified as being of nickname origin. Surnames which are derived from a nickname are said to contribute one of the widest and most varied class of family names. This particular category emcompasses many different types of origin. The most obvious are those names which are based on a physical characteristic or personal attribute of the initial barer. In this particular instance, the surname Goethe is derived from the Middle High German "götte, gotte" which literally indiciates "godparent". Thus, this term would have been applied to one who was the godparent of an important person in the community. Alternatively, this surname is of personal name origin, derived from the first name of the father of the initial barer. Here the name indicates "son of Göte", a pet form of first names derived from the Old High German "Got" meaning "God". Variants of the surname include Gotti, Götti, Gotte, Goth,and Göd.
One of the earliest references to this name or to a variant is a record of on Cuonr. der Göthe who appears in documents relating to Villingen in 1329. However, research is of course ongoing and this name may have been documented even earlier then the date indicated above. Hsnsli Gotti is recorded as residing in the Unterbaldingen in 1398. We also read of the marriage of Friedrich Georg Goethe and Anne Elisabeth Lutz (personal note: it was their son who produced George II and Heinrich who were my ancestors who came from Germany to South Carolina) in Frankfurt m Main, Hessen-Nassau, on the 18th of April 1687. Ernst Wilhelm Gienther Goethe, son of Johann Daniel Bernhard Goethe and Auguste Wilhelmine Bohnhardt, was born in Koethen, Anhalt, Fraureuth, Reuss-Aeltere-Linie, Thuringen, on June 22nd, 1839.
Surnames: Goethe, Goettee, Gotti, Götti, Gotte, Goth, Göd
Submitted by: Allison Goettee (Goethe) Newton |
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