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Pages in category "Surnames of Old English origin" The following 81 pages are in this category, out of 81 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Surnames of British Isles origin. ... Surnames of Old English origin (81 P) T. English toponymic surnames (452 P)
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English surnames of Norse origin. Much of the north of 9th century England was occupied by Norse invaders, who left behind descendants with Norse surnames. Norse invaders ruled much of northern England, in the 9th and 10th centuries, and left English surnames of Norse origin in the area now called the Danelaw. [1][2]
Acton family (17 P) Aitken family (1 C, 21 P) Alexander family (British aristocracy) (31 P) Allsopp family (1 C, 9 P) Annesley family (36 P) Anson family (35 P) Arbuthnot family (66 P) Armstrong-Jones family (2 C, 12 P) Arundell family (1 C, 41 P)
Knowles (/ noʊlz / [1]) is an English surname of Old English origin. This is a locality name meaning 'at the knoll,' a hill or summit, derived from Old English word cnolle or Middle English knol, [2] meaning hilltop and thus describes a person who lived at such a place. It can also be an Anglicized version of the Irish name Ó Tnúthghail.
Surnames of Old English origin (81 P) C. Celtic-language surnames (7 C, 13 P) E. Eliot family (3 C, 1 P) ... Pages in category "Surnames of British Isles origin"
It is a well-stirred mix of Old English, Middle English and Norman French, with some Norse and Celt, in which it is English that dominates. To see it in context, Norman French was the language of power and rank until Henry IV made English the tongue of kings at the end of the fourteenth century when most surnames already existed." [2]