Some of the earliest Jewish bearers of the Strauss name hailed from the Judengasse in medieval Frankfurt. Notable other Jewish names here were Rothschild,SchiffandStern.There families were generally known by the names of the house they inhabited. All the houses had names and these included Haus...
The surname Ritchie, coming principally from Scotland, is a diminutive of Richard, a Germanic name brought across by the Normans (derived fromricmeaning “power” andhardmeaning “strong” or “hardy”). Ritchie and Richey are the main surname spellings today. The Richey variant came from Irela...
We have seen that Cornish mines employed 30 per cent of the male labour force in 1861. But they also employed several thousand women on the surface, breaking up rock, washing it or picking out ore from rock. There were over 5,000 of these, known as bal maidens, across Cornwall, amounti...
The Origins of Ireland’s Surnames It is easy to think that Irish surnames are all Gaelic in origin, but it’s far from the case. While the majority have Gealic roots, the various waves of settlers and conquerers that came to Ireland over the centuries brought their names with them and ...
Favero = Favreau Cole = Charbonneau The term "Acadians" refers to immigrants from France in the early 1600s who settled in the colony of Acadia, in what are now the provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. Terrien = Therrien [ NOTE: The above is a PARTIAL LIST...
In 1066 following the Battle of Hasting the Duke of Normandy, a region of north-west France, became King of England. For a time this had little effect in Ireland, but from the mid 12th century on, Norman-French invaders and their retinues began to arrive in Ireland. ...
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The Stern name had been prominent in the Judengasse community of Frankfurt in the 17th century, as were other Jewish names such as Rothschild, Schiff and Strauss. The Stern banking family originated there with Samuel Hayum Stern in the 1780’s. Sterns also came from the old Austria-Hungary ...
Elsewhere. The Bowman name extended southward to Durham (where there are the most Bowmans today), Yorkshire, and Staffordshire. Bowmans at Stanhope in Durham, according to churchyard records, date from the early 1700’s. Thomas Bowman, a farmer who resided at Shepherds House in Stanhope, died...
Sir Edward Fisher, an English adventurer, received large land grants in the early 1600’s in west Dublin and Wexford (after his death, these estates passed onto the Chichester family). Dublin was also the home of Quaker Fishers from Cheshire, many of whom moved onto a safer refuge in Penns...