Origin of Ish

Name History and Origin for Ish
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Total Records: 30

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Origin: Families are IRISH from the original spelling of: Grealis Grealish Grayless Gradeless.
Surnames: Gradeless, Grayless, Grealish
Submitted by: Donald E. Gradeless

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Origin: The Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs agree that the name MacInnes and all of its variants are of ancient and unique origin. The celtic version is closer to Mac Aonghais. During ancient times the Mac Innes clan followed King Colla from Ireland to Dalriada and established themselves there as one of the original clans to settle that part of Scotland from Ireland. They weathered many hardships but the final straw was the Jacobite Rebellion, which split the clan and led to the Highland Clearances. As a result, the clan has been scattered across the United States and Canada, with some contingents in Australia. The various customs and immigration services of the areas where the Scotsmen settled seem to have corrupted the name many times, leaving a wide variety of variants.
Surnames: Macinnes, Mcangus, Mcginnis, Mcinnes, Mcinnis, Mckinnish, Mcmaster
Submitted by: Jack McInnis

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Origin: The Name DISHMAN is the Anglicization of the French name DUCHEMIN or du Chemin in old French. All Dishman named persons in the USA came from either Samuel Duchemin (Westmoreland County, Va. 1693) or Daniel Duchemin (New York - 1687)
Surnames: Dishman, Dishmon
Submitted by: James Dallas Dishman

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Origin: I have two senarios. The first is associated with the Irish meaning 'the son of Giers'. The second is an old Gaelic version beginning with Mac O'Pheris back in the 14th century. Over the years it has changed to O'Pheris, Pheris, Keris, Kerris, Kerse, Kearse, Kierse, Kierce, etc.
Surnames: Kearse, Kearsh, Kearson, Keirce, Kerce, Kerisk, Kerris, Kerrish, Kerrison, Kerse, Kersh, Kierce, Kierse, Kirsh
Submitted by: Vanessa Kierce Burzynski

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Origin: Diminutive of the French name Michel/Micheau, literally 'little Michael.' Most Michauds in North America are descended from Pierre Michel, who arrived in Quebec in 1656.
Surnames: Michaud, Mishou, Mishow, Michau
Submitted by: Scott Michaud

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Origin: Any one who might be relative to Vaughn English
Surnames: English
Submitted by: JoAnn English

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Origin: Looking for information on my great grandfather, John Paul Mallette.
Surnames: BLISH
Submitted by: Terry Harp

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Origin: William McLeish travelled from Scotland to Greymouth, New Zealand, possibly via Australia where he may have had a family, around the early 1900's. He was originally a boxer and later lived with his new family farming outside Whangarei. Any information welcome.
Surnames: McLeish
Submitted by: Phill McLeish

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Origin: I'm interested in family stories about Masuyo Nishimori
Surnames: nishimori
Submitted by: David Nishimoto

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Origin: Descendants of William Leishman (b. 1825, Port Glasgow, Renfrew, Scotland; d. 1901, West Virginia. He m. 1846, Ann Forsyth, Shotts, Lanark, Scotland)
Surnames: Leishman
Submitted by: Robert Leishman

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Origin: I am a descendant of 'William (Bill) M. Parrish'. Parents: David or Edward & Laura/Lara 13 bothers & sisters, so my relatives say Born: January 27 1894 Rougemont, NC Died: October 13, 1964 Wife: Lucy Ann Butler There is cause to believe he was married before - he was living while in Baltimore Maryland (Census shows that);working on the B & O Railroad Was in WWI & honorably discharged in 1919 help, please... Lisa M. Fredricks (603) 888-7656 home lfredricks@pria.com kurecz@aol.com
Surnames: parrish
Submitted by: Lisa

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Origin: Worsham & Washam Family History
Surnames: Wisham
Submitted by: Larry Washam

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Origin: Worsham & Washam Family History
Surnames: Wishum
Submitted by: Larry Washam

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Origin: is there a family coat of arms?
Surnames: gerrish
Submitted by: oliver gerrish

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Origin: William Mabius Parrish; bd.January 27, 1994 in Rougemont, NC. Lived in MD; married to 'Carrie' from NJ. Parent's Edward/Laura(Lara) or David/Laura(Lara).He was in WWI.please contact me as my grandfathers' is a mysterious. We believe he deserted 'Carrie'. The Parrocchia name was found on inside books (W.M. Parrocchia). We also believe that the 'Mabius' stood for his mother's maiden name. Our other theory was that somehow he changed his name prior to enlisting into the army.
Surnames: Parrish
Submitted by: Lisa

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Origin: Seeking info on John Tweedale Fisher married Maud Summers? 1915-1930? He adopted her son, William Austen McGregor Tweedale Fisher(b1915 Newcastle),and they had a son together John (b1930)
Surnames: Fisher
Submitted by: Louise Jupp

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Origin: Irish/French
Surnames: Mishoe
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Origin: Bishop/Bishopp

Old English origin
Occupational name means one who worked in the household of a clergy or son of a clergyman
Surnames: Bishop, Bishopp
Submitted by: glitz

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Origin: Brentishall

means hall on a steep hill

Brent
Cletic origin means hilltop
Old English origin "burnt" means high place, steep hill
Surnames: Brentishall
Submitted by: glitz

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Origin: Furnys
English origin means one who came from or lived near Furness (far headland)

Fur
Old English meaning far

ness
Old English meaning promontory or peninsular

Furness is from Fuththernessa meaning headland or the latin word futhpernessa (1150ad) meaning the headland with a rump shaped island.

Old English Furora means further
Surnames: Furnis, Furnace, Fornace, Furnish, Furness
Submitted by: glitz

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Origin: English became a name given to a family group who originally hailed from England and moved to Ireland.
Surnames: English
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Origin: According to family histories in general the name of Parish evolved from two main distinct origins. In other words, there are at least two families branches, unrelated, namely:
Of French extraction or from Paris - evolved from ?de Paris?, (of Paris) from the city of Paris, as a Norman French name, originally ?de Paris? which translates from French into English as ?of Paris?, and eventually became Parish, Parys, etc. One Englishman, Matthew Paris, the English chronicler of the early part of the thirteenth century, acquired his name from his study at he University of Paris. Paris sometimes added an h to his name to make it Parish or Parrish.
Of a locality or church parish - Parish or Parrish as a name taken from locality or even a church parish. A name local in origin, persons from this branch are not necessarily French in origin as the lines which derived from Paris above. Also in the 17th and 18th centuries, the surname was occasionally bestowed on foundlings brought up at the expense of the parish...... the young person who was an orphan of the church - in the days before welfare and state aid, an orphan with no surname may have picked up the last name of Parish as being ?of the Parish?

A third, less common origin of the name comes from the rare medieval given name Paris, probably an OF form of Patrick, but associated with the name of the Trojan prince, Paris, which has been speculatively traced to an original Illyrian form Voltuparis or Assparis ?Hawk
Surnames: Parish, Parrish
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Origin: The Parisii were a Celtic clan that lived in a place called Paris (now Paris, France). The Roman Empire was out conquering everything everywhere.They went to battle with the Parisii, but the Romans were too great in number and won. The Parisii that could, fled to an isolated strip in what is now England and from there went to what is now Ireland.

Since Parisii was an odd name and since it was a custom of the time for a last name to be simply "of [placename]" , and since some wanted to blend in , etc, the name Parisii began to change. Some kept Parisii; some changed it and it became "Paris" or "de Paris" (of Paris); As they moved into Ireland, the "h" was added; variations became O'Paris, O'Parish, and Parish. Then "The Church" came along and used "Parish" to denote areas, so the second "r" was added by some so as not to be associated with the Church.

The name changes happened over many generations and was prompted by a variety of reasons (including: a desire to fit in or not stand out as different; to gain favor with or avoid conflict with "the powers that be"; or just because people were not educated and it just happened - as in census takers and tax roll compilers here change spellings).
Surnames: Parish, Parrish
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Origin: Immigrants to America often could not speak
English. Immigration officials who met the boats
often could not speak the immigrants language.
Jewish people who had recently lost a loved one
(sometimes in transit to America) where in
mourning. Somehow the Jewish prayer Kaddish
was used as their surname--according to my
grandfather Morris Kadish.
Surnames: kadish
Submitted by: Craig Kadish

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Origin: The surname Dalgleish comes from a placename in the Southern Uplands of Scotland. The placename is in a P-Celtic language which is often described as Proto-Welsh or Cumbric. The language had been supplanted by Old English by AD 800 and was certainly dead in the region by the time the Viking Kingdom of York replaced the Saxon realms of Northumbria. The place-name is often translated as meaning "green field". What must be remembered, however, is that the period when it became necessary to have surnames - and thus when the people living there became identified by this place-name, was a long time after the language was dead. The fact that the place-name is at least 1,100 years old reveals nothing about those people who became known by the name. Never-the-less, the name was last recorded as a field name and there is no record of there ever being any substantial settlement there - so it is likely that whoever lived there were farmers or farm labourers and it is remarkable how quickly and how far the name has spread over the past four hundred years.
Surnames: Dalgleish, Dalgliesh, Dagleish, Dalgeish, Dolgleish
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Origin: On the family crest appears the motto:
"Pro Deo et Eclesia".

It means For God and the Church.
Surnames: Bishop
Submitted by: Tom Bishop

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Origin: Ireland
Surnames: Clisham
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Origin: Mac an Isagair "Son of the Fisher
Surnames: Fisher
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Origin: hi ive been trying hard to find out the meaning of this so i thought i should help others the meaning is " fisherman " bye xxx
Surnames: fisher
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Origin: Maly Rakovec, Ruthenia, Slovakia (Ukraine)
Surnames: Savko, Yetsconish, George
Submitted by: Robert Grazzini