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Hembree is an English surname [3] [4] [2] almost exclusively found in the (southeastern) United States, where it represents an altered spelling of the English family name Hembr(e)y, which may be traced to one of at least three Germanic compound personal names (Emery, Amalric or Henry). [1] Notable people with this name include:
Venango - An eastern Native American name in reference to a figure found on a tree, carved by the Erie. Waco - Named after Waco, Texas , which is the name of one of the divisions of the Tawokoni whose village stood on the site of Waco, Texas.
Pages in category "Surnames of Native American origin" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
[citation needed] The name is most likely a patronymic of the personal name *Prišь, preserved as a surname in Polish Przysz and Sorbian Priš, a hypocoristic of the Slavic personal name Pribyslavъ. A false etymology connects the name Priština with Serbo-Croatian prišt (пришт), meaning 'ulcer' or 'tumor', referring to its 'boiling'.
Map showing the source languages/language families of state names. The fifty U.S. states, the District of Columbia, the five inhabited U.S. territories, and the U.S. Minor Outlying Islands have taken their names from a wide variety of languages. The names of 24 states derive from indigenous languages of the Americas and one from Hawaiian.
Fort Hembree's main building as seen around 1920 with members of the Scroggs family. Fort Hembree was designed by John C. Fremont, the first Republican nominee for president of the U.S. The fort was built on “Fort Hill” between Blair Creek and Town Creek near the Unicoi Turnpike. The facility was approximately 200 by 600 feet in size.
Tongue creek (trib. of Highwood River). Name harkens to Native legend of Old Man being tricked by Wolf and Mouse eating his elk tongues. Cree place name natsina (tongue) [48] Twin Butte may be derived from Blackfoot name natsikapway-tomo "double hill" (Hugh A. Dempsey, Indian Names for Alberta Communities, p. 18)
The origins of some of Kahnawake's European family names were first published by Father Forbes in 1899. [2] Below is detailed history of Kahnawake's most common surnames of European / North American origin. Beauvais: the first Beauvais was André Karhaton, who married Marie-Anne Kahenratas before 1743. He was a young man from the Beauvais ...