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Pages in category "Surnames of Old English origin" The following 82 pages are in this category, out of 82 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 (82 P) T. English toponymic surnames (452 P)
Lawrence family of England (22 P) Lawson Johnston family (5 P) Legge family (29 P) Lennox family (1 C, 18 P) (previous page) ... Wodehouse (surname) Wolfson family
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]
Pages in category "English-language surnames" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 3,354 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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]
Surname Current status Notes Baron de Ros: 1264 [a] De Ros, Manners, Cecil, MacDonnell, Villiers, FitzGerald-De Ros / Boyle, Dawson, Ross, Maxwell: extant: Created by writ. Forfeit 1464-1485. In abeyance 1508-1512. Also Earl of Rutland 1525-1587, 1618-1632. Also Duke of Buckingham 1649-1687. In abeyance 1687-1806, 1939-1943, 1956-1958 Baron le ...
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