Total Records: 36
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Origin: Donnachaidh is one of the oldest Scottish clans, arriving in Scotland from Irish Picts anywhere from 40-90 AD. My particular surname, Donachy, I have been told is a 'hideout' name members of the clan took after Culloden in 1746. Being a Highland Clan, we were not on the winning side that day. Go to www.tartans.com for a good overview history. The clan is listed under the great hall. It's also known as Clan Robertson. I'm sure what I'm telling you, you already know about. If any info on the name Donachy could be shared, I'd greatly appreciate it. There's not too many of us :)
Surnames: Donachy, Donnachaidh
Submitted by: Chris-Anna L. Donachy |
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Origin: Derived from 'highgate' an English placename meaning a low break in the hills. Earliest reference is to John Hiett (alternately spelled Hiatt) in Bucks, County, PA.
Surnames: Hiatt, Hiett, Hyatt, Hyett
Submitted by: David Hiett |
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Origin: english/welsh origin meaning living/alive. Name from the bishop of Saintes, 5th cent. martyr from the Normans. Difiicult to pronounce which explains the numerous spellings.
Surnames: Fidian, Fithian, Fivian, Phythian, Vivian
Submitted by: Dawn Phythian-Crockett |
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Origin: Swedish or Belgian.
Surnames: Scohy
Submitted by: jdarsses |
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Origin: Reggio di Calabria, Italy
Surnames: Tassoni, Timothy
Submitted by: Tassone |
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Origin: The surname FIFIELD appears to be derived from an old Anglo-Saxon measure of land, the hide. A hide was the amount deemed necessary to support a family, and varied according to the quality of the land. A common family group was five hides of land Several small English villages are called Fifield or a variant. There are over 60 variants of the name Fifield
Surnames: Fefeld, Fifield, Fivefield, Fyfield, Fyphild, Phifield, Phyfield
Submitted by: Jacqueline Woolnough |
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Origin: One of the oldest English family names. Child comes from Childe which was a title given to Norse, French, and English Kings during the 4th through the 10th centuries. It was also a title given to the eldest son or to heirs, and finally, it was a title given to young nobles awaiting knighthood during the 13th and 14th centuries. The variants on the Childe name are not related to each other as they are descendants of different young nobles.
Surnames: Child, Childe, Childs, Chyld, Le Childe
Submitted by: John T Child |
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Origin: There are many variations to the name which originates in Scotland. Somehow, it is derived from Mac Gilla`s Eidich, or son of Gilla Eidich.
Surnames: Maclatchy, Mclatchy
Submitted by: Bill McLatchy |
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Origin: It is my dads (L.E. Wissel) biological father's name. His father's name is Howard Behymer.
Surnames: Behymer
Submitted by: l e wissel jr |
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Origin: This last name originates from Czechoslovakia (spelling?) and it means 'long'. Long what exactly, I'm not sure.
Surnames: Dlouhy
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Origin: Searching for the surname worldwide. Any and all references. Building a database and trying to link us all together.
Surnames: NOSWORTHY
Submitted by: Bob Nosworthy |
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Origin: Origin of the surname hyer
Surnames: Hyer
Submitted by: John Hyer |
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Origin: canadian ancestors
Surnames: McConaghy
Submitted by: karen chandler |
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Origin: Email and address as of 1/2001
Surnames: Ghysels
Submitted by: Patsy Ghysels |
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Origin: I found a photo done by a photographer in Everett, Washington at an antique store in Centralia, Washington. On the back of this photo it reads: Robert Elmer Hysom age 15 months. If any one in the family would like it, I will gladly send it.
Surnames: Hysom
Submitted by: Lorrie Davis |
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Origin: Dan Edgar
Surnames: Leahy
Submitted by: JW |
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Origin: researching James H. Dennison decendents that settled in the DC/MD area--can anyone connect to these.
Surnames: Twohy
Submitted by: Bonnie Jones |
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Origin: The third generation migrated west to Ohio (Bevelhymer) and to Indiana (Bevelheimer). There are numerous variations the spelling of the original name Beinbelheimer: Bevelheimer, Bevelhymer, Bevelhimer, Beavheimer, Bevalhimer, Bebelheimer, Beeblehaimer, Beebelheimer, Beibelhimer, Beibleheimer, Bevilheimer, Bevilhamer, Bevilhimer, Bibleheimer, Bibelheimer, Biebelheimer, Beintelheimer, Bienbelheimer
Surnames: Bevelhymer
Submitted by: sbbaker |
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Origin: My husband Philip George Ghysels, son of Robert James Ghysels, g-son Marinus Ernest Ghysels, ggs-Jacobus Ghysels who descendant from Abraham Ghysels Groede Netherlands.
Surnames: Ghysels
Submitted by: Patricia Diane Ghysels |
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Origin: olive, sister:grace, brother:donald mother:betsy ann walkden; father:thomas maddox hyslop
Surnames: hyslop
Submitted by: joan padrenoss |
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Origin: I am trying to trace my husband's family. James MULCAHY (husband's GGF) was born in Limerick/Ireland and emigrated to Tasmania, Australia during the potato famine approx. 1850. DIED 9/5/1890. Had at least one son - Peter Francis MULCAHY (husand's GF) DOB 26/6/1866. Married to Kate BROWN 14/4/1891. DIED 1943.
Surnames: MULCAHY
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Origin: Catherine, Peter, Bridget (Biddi), Castlebar area of County Mayo, Ireland, possibly Islandeady Parish.
Surnames: Tuohy
Submitted by: Frank Dynan |
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Origin: Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan immigrants descending from Jacobus/James Ghysels.
Surnames: GHYSELS
Submitted by: Patsy Ghysels |
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Origin: Kayastha:'Kaya' means The Body and 'stha' means to Live in, ie. Kayastha means those who Live in the body of Brahma.
Specially Chitragupt the main Judge and Accountant for deciding whom should go to Heavenand whom to Hell,is the Father of this branch of Caste.
Surnames: Srivastava, Shrivastava, Srivastav, Shrivastav, Nigam, Asthana, Vidyarthi, Bhatnagar, Ambastha, Rai, Raizada, Raijada, Sinha, Bachchan, Vidhyarthi
Submitted by: Shashwat Srivastava |
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Origin: Whyg Burh: "dweller of mound fortress", Old English or Anglo-Saxon originally used in about 840 CE, many variants, e.g., Whybra
Surnames: Whybra, Whybrow
Submitted by: Melvin Gerard Whybra |
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Origin: Soffa is one of the English variations of the French name Sauve.I've found thirty English name variations of this French name in North America alone.
Surnames: Soffa, Sophy, Sauve
Submitted by: Larry Sovey |
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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: 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: Polish jewish decent
Surnames: Golsworhy
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Origin: It comes from early french sayings "Votre grand robinet est de la mani?re Mr.Freathy" The same goes for "Mr.Freathy a une ?pouse avec un gros fond comme une vache!" In English We would say Joe Bloggs it just means "who ever!" But instead of saying Joe bloggs the french say Mr.Freathy.
Surnames: freathy
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Origin: Uchytil is czech word (comes from the Czech Republic) and it is a verb in past tense. Infinitive is "uchytit" and means "to catch" or "to settle down" or "to take a chance".
Surnames: Uchytil
Submitted by: Josef Uchytil |
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Origin: Hyui
Surnames: HYUW
Submitted by: Yuri |
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Origin: Origin of name Elworthy, believed to be anglo saxon meaning an enclosure of Elm tree's.
Surnames: Elworthy
Submitted by: simon Elworthy |
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Origin: There are at least three possible Celtic origins of the Chinn family name; these being;
Chinn in Irish celtic means "head"
Chinne on the coast of Wales refers to an inlet or wash where the sea flows into a river or channel amongst the rocky cliffs
Chynne in old Celtic meaning "of the valley"
Common spellings of the name are CHINN, CHIN, CHINNE, CHYNNE, CHEIN, DE CHYNNE and DE CHYNE
By my record the family arrived from Normandy as the family "de Chynne", the Norman pronunciation of the time, circa the arrival of William the conqueror (mid C11). There are several Chinn coats of arms, that depicted above being associated with the Devonshire branch of the family, and granted while on campaign cir. 1265 in Tournais, Belgium.
There are records of de Chynne also having been in Scotland as part of the unification of that territory, but the Scottish de Chynne's do not appear to have any connection to the present family, having arrived much later (circa 15th / 16th century).
The Chinn's are found throughout south western England, primarily in Cornwall, Somerset, Dorset, Devonshire and Wiltshire. The Chinn ancestral family home is purported to be located in Cornwall, though I have not determined where exactly this may be found. Since their origins in south western England, the Chinn's have emigrated and are now found across the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
While my account above addresses the Celtic origins of the name, it is the Chinese derivation which is probably best known. In 221 B.C the ruler of the western Chinese state of Qin [pronounced Ch'in] subjugated the last of six major states of Eastern Zhou and unified China. He took the title Shi Huangdi (First Emperor). The Qin Dynasty made an indelible mark on the future of China. The English "China" is derived from this as well as the anglicized version of the name Chin. There is also an Asian derivation the name anglicized as Chinn, though less common than the former spelling.
Surnames: Chinn, Chin, Chinne, Chynne, Chein, De Chynne, De Chyne
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Origin of Hy, Meaning of Hy
Origin: malanaphy
Surnames: malanaphy
Submitted by: patricia |
Origin of Hy, Meaning of Hy
Origin: Murphy in an Irish Surname.
Surnames: Murphy
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