32,000 in the UK (most numerous in London) 31,000 in America (most numerous in California). 38,000 elsewhere (most numerous in Canada)Higgins and Like Surnames The Irish clan or sept names come through the mists of time until they were found in Irish records such as The Annals of the...
is remembered for the diaries he kept at that time. Frederick Shepherd founded the Shepherd building company in York in 1900. His descendants still feature in what is now one of the largest privately-owned UK construction companies.
Maatuk Dabby lived in Alexandria between 1929-1951 and performed more than 3,300 circumcisions. The register details the name of the father, the maiden name of the mother and the name of her father. Although he was not the only Mohel in the city, he left behind him a mine of vital d...
Wales. It was the Welsh longbow archer who was instrumental in the English victories of Crecy and Agincourt and hence many fletchers at that time came from south Wales. There were references to Fletcher as a surname in Cardiff during the 16th century when surnames were beginning to take root ...
All names beginning in Fitz –Fitzgerald,Fitzpatrick, Fitzsimonsand so on, are of Norman origin. The Fitz is simply a mispronunciation of the French “fils”, meaning “son of”, and its use implies a family with an aristocratic background. ActorBarry Fitzgerald(left)was of Norman-Irish sto...
Attachment: foreign names (female names) A Abigail Abigail Hebrew father is happy; his father. Ada, ADA, UK, add pleasure; beauty.
reasons, such as to signal family connectedness (to show marital union/commitment and family solidarity and/or to mark the beginning of a new stage of life) or as a pragmatic means of avoiding confusion over disparate surnames within a family unit (for the UK, see Thwaites 2013; Wilson ...
and Sidney’s son Peter has been a successful film producer in both the UK and US.America. Samuelsons here have been a mix of Scandinavian and Jewish origin. Scandinavian. These immigrants came in the mid/late 1800’s, generally to states in the upper Midwest. Among the arrivals were:Sven...
300 in the UK (most numerous in London) 400 in America (most numerous in New York) Sassoon and Like Jewish Surnames The Jews were banned from England in 1290 and did not return there until the 1650’s, sometimes in the form of Portuguese traders. They were to make their mark as mercha...
Alfred Fielding with his Swiss partner was the inventor of bubble wrap in New Jersey in 1957. Helen Fielding is the English writer best known for her creation of the Bridget Jones character. Fielding Numbers Today10,000 in the UK (most numerous in Lancashire) 2,000 in America (most numero...