Surnames of Scotland: Their Origin, Meaning and Historyby George F. Black (Churchill & Dunn, Ltd) The Origin and Signification of Scottish Surnames: With a Vocabulary of Christian Namesby Clifford Stanley Sims (Palala Press) FAMILY TREE PODCASTS ...
The male line of Cochrane chiefs died out in the early 1600’s. But the heiress Elizabeth married Alexander Blair from Ayrshire who took on the name and arms of Cochrane and ensured that the name would continue. From this line came Sir William Cochrane of Coldoun, a Royalist supporter at ...
a doublet of velvet with satin sleeves and another of satin with velvet sleeves; a scarlet gown faced with foins; an old blue gown faced with foins and furred with coney; a gown of crimson lined with say; a black gown welted with tawny velvet and faced with satin; an old blue gown ...
Scottish surnames as we know them today — family names passed down intact from father to son to grandson — were first introduced into Scotland by the Normans about the year 1100. Such hereditary names were not universally prevalent and settled, however. The use of fixed Scottish surnames (las...
Appearance/Characteristics- Some surnames were given to actually describe the looks, age, or personality of the bearer. Young, for example, might indicate the younger of two family members named John. Snow would mean they were light complected or had hair white as snow. Strong would mean the...
I have mentioned that English surnames can be like Smith or Baker, indicating how the original bearer of the name earned his living, or like Johnson and Nixon, they can mean "son of" a particular person. Another group of surnames describes what the first person to bear the name looked lik...
SCHWARZ -BLACK KLEIN -LITTLE When a German surname did not have an English equivalent, the name change was usually based onphonetics- spelled in English the way it sounded. SCHAFER - SHAFFER VEICHT - FIGHT GUHR - GERR Top 50 German Surnames and Their Meanings...
Means “black shirt”. O’Flaherty Variant:Flaherty, O’Flaverty. O’Laverty In Irish:Ó Flaithbheartaigh Found in:Galway, Mayo Origin:Gaelic Very ancient family O’Gara In Irish:O Gadhra Found in:Cavan, Mayo, Sligo. Origin:Gaelic ...
Ponticus- Meaning "associated with Pontus," the region along the southern coast of the Black Sea in Asia Minor. This was a victory surname conferred upon L. Licinius Lucullus Ponticus (consul of 74 BCE) in recognition of his invasion of Pontus and subsequent military victories in the Mithrida...
were found to be distinctively White, with less than 2% of those so forenamed being Black. Another U.S.-based study suggests that sex and gender matter in terms of the ways embodied forename choices can signal difference from and assimilation to majority cultures. Sue and Telles (2007) exami...