Keegan is one of a clan of spirited Irish surnames starting with K and ending with 'n'--this one with the cheery double 'e' in the middle-- that are appealing to an increasing number of parents. It derives from Mac Aodhagáin, meaning "son (or descendant) of Aodhagán," a diminutive...
In this way, about the year 1000 starting from the city of Venice, a second name (surname) was added. The custom gradually spread from the nobility to all classes of people, and by the 15th century most surnames were formed. A small, illiterate social milieu, as was a village, just ne...
Roscommon.A branch of the family, starting with Patrick French and his son Dominick, moved to Roscommon in 1650’s and were large landowners there. They also prospered in the Dublin wine trade. Their base was the Frenchpark estate near Boyle which stayed with the family until 1952. Spain....
and in the village of Gwynfe, starting with Samuel Howell in the late 1700’s.William Howell was a Quaker from Castle in Pembrokeshire who emigrated to Pennsylvania in 1682.England. Not all Howells in England have Welsh roots or connections. A few have English origins. It was said that Wi...
The group of university professors is represented by the surnames of those who were engaged in teaching and research at the University of Modena starting from 1921. Along- side a better economic and income condition, it is presumable that this social group had greater influence on the socio-...
The district with the maximum LQ (MLQ) can be used as a starting point for assigning a surname as local or non-local. In general it appears that surnames with high MLQs tend to be comparatively rare (Figure 1) and are more likely to have a local distribution (eg Pedlar MLQ¼323)....
In closing, all three tests (Y-DNA, autosomal DNA, and allele frequencies) showed that Boruch ELBAUM had Ashkenazi ancestry, with no overt signs of Sephardic lineage. E. Conclusion Starting from a classical reconstruction of a family tree in the particular town of Krasnobrod, we have succeeded...
[translate] aOriginal P ' JOE and p ' JAY is born of the same parents having the brothers, p ' JOE and p ' KONG is growing together with different surnames the brothers, 原始的P ‘乔和p’杰伊是出生同样父母有兄弟, p ‘乔,并且p’ KONG与不同的姓氏一起生长兄弟, [translate] ...
The linkage to the Travers of Halton Hall in Cheshire appears much more definite, starting with Hamon Travers in 1522. John Travers of this family was a successful merchant in London in Stuart times. Travers from Nateby departed for Ireland in 1599 and for America in 1627. Nateby Hall ...
another Carl Schultz, in this case from Prussia, who came to Minnesota in the 1850’s and engaged in various practices, including a successful real estate and loan company, before starting up his own lumber company in Minneapolis in 1908. and Carl Schulz from Pomerania who arrived in New ...