Edmund’s grandfather had been a steward on the Dalemain estate and Edmund’s father had grown up just over the hill in Askham before emigrating to Australia in 1832. Beginning with very little money, Edmund’s father quickly increased his fortune through the wool trade, gradually enlarging his...
a Rhodes family beginning with Thomas Rhodes, born around 1724 at Ledsham near Castleford. another Rhodes family beginning with John Rhodes, born in 1786 at Flockton chapel near Wakefield. Many of his descendants were coal miners, moving out to Cheshire and Derbyshire. William Rhodes the playwrigh...
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 ...
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...
d. Les Fleurs de L’Orient.[5]This richly documented website which is dedicated to the Farhi family history has also a genealogy section with thousands of surnames and has also an advanced search option by birth and death place. e. The Circumcisions Register of Maatuk Dabby.[6] ...
The world was beginning to regard this victim of maternal heartlessness with a more favorable eye when the accident occurred which put not only his reputation but his life itself into jeopardy. He – together with James Gregory and William Merchant – was indicted at the Old Bailey for the ...
Beginning in 1852, their Lansdowne plantation was part suburban Natchez estate and part cotton plantation. They replaced the original house with a finer one. Many of the twenty two slaves there would have worked to support the house, a butler, a cook, house maid, nurse for the children, som...
It was from a junior line beginning with Walter de Treworgy, a third son, that the Pelyn line began. Pelyn was a woodland estate west of Lostwithiel in Cornwall owned by the Kendall family for over 400 years. The Grade II house, built in 1601 with subsequent 18th century and ...
17,000 in the UK (most numerous in Yorkshire) 24,000 in America (most numerous in California) 12,000 elsewhere (most numerous in Australia) Norton and Like Surnames The Anglo-Saxon wordtunmeaning “settlement” gave rise to many place-names with the suffix “-ton.” And the place-name ...
34,000 in the UK (most numerous in Lancashire) 26,000 in America (most numerous in California) 21,000 elsewhere (most numerous in Australia) Cross and Like Surnames These names are locational, describing someone who lived in those medieval times by the side of a bank, or by a barn or ...