Ever looked up the origin of your surname?

No need to list it, in case I can't sell it (@Tuesday wildchild ) but do you know the origin and original meaning of your surname?

If it's Irish, here is good:

http://www.irishcentral.com/roots/ancestry/top-300-irish-surnames-explained

Mine was accurate, derived from old Irish for the word dumb or wealthy....reassuring that the former was on point! Got the county my old man was from too.

 

we have the family tree going back to the 1100s thanks partly to a Mr Hitler

 

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Fast or lively, apparently. Strong Cornish connection as miners, and South Wales where they migrated to work in the coal mines.

 

Name is Twitty - I'm used to all the remarks - a derivation of Tweedy, one of the Boarder Reivers families from 13th century raiding England - up by the River Tweed at Berwick.

Would have preferred Tweedy as a kid, I learned fast how to deal with name calling, our kids use my wife's surname of Jones!!

 

My family name is of Huguenot extraction.....from the French 'Maberly' meaning of the big house.
The family only has two branches in the UK, mine and my brothers.
Tony

 

This popped up on my facebook feed today:
http://www.iflscience.com/editors-b...-of-your-family-name-along-with-45600-others/

 

The other day dear, on here dear, you were on the computer, typing away dear.....

You asked if the mods were info gathering.

Need to avoid aluminium saucepans!!

 

Yes I know; )

And in answer to the title yes I do know thanks.

 

Can we have our sheep back, please!

 

So are you Matty Hitler?

 

Have you not seen him goose?

 

Ashby - Saxon.) Local. The house by the "ash,"or the village on a place abounding in ash—trees; by signifying a villa or habitation.— An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names (1857) by William Arthur


Apparently Ashby is the 13,163rd most common surname in the world - http://forebears.co.uk/surnames/ashby#meaning

 

Haynes dates back to before the doomsday book, it has Anglo Saxon origins, it was a popular name in Essex, Bedfordshire and Dorset, there is a connection with the slave trade, and is why Haynes is a common name in the West Indies as the slaves would adopt the name of their owners, people with the name Haynes are usually attractive suave, sophisticated, kind, educated and funny,

 

Has one add ones own description on the end?

 

And elaborate liars!

 

Irish from Galway city ,the family name goes back to Celtic tribes when there was a bit of barney and my branch trounced off dropping the O prefix.we have a coat of arms a boars head with a sword through it .none of your poncy flowers and pretty views

 

No it was how I found it, ok I added Kind