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Dies is a surname of Dutch, Flemish, and Frisian origin. [1] It is a modification of "Th(ew)ys" or "Thees", itself a modification of "Matthias". [1] Notable people with this surname include: Albert Christoph Dies (1755–1822), German painter, composer, and biographer; Josh Dies (born 1983), American singer, songwriter, musician and author
O'Hara (Irish: Ó hEaghra) is a surname. [1] The death of the eponym – Eaghra Poprigh mac Saorghus, lord of Luighne, ... Notable people with the surname include:
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Giles De'Ath, fictional character in the film Love and Death on Long Island; Sydney De'Ath, original name of the Judge Dredd character Judge Death; Theodore De'Ath, the central figure in Majella Cullinane's 2018 novel The Life of De'Ath; Peter Death Bredon Wimsey, full name of Dorothy Sayers' aristocratic detective Lord Peter Wimsey
Posthumus is a surname mostly stemming from the Dutch province of Friesland.Among variants are Posthuma and Postmus.The surname may have originated in the same way Romans called boys and girls born after the death of their father Postumus and Postuma, and the common Frisian name Postma sometimes is a derivative of such a name.
A surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several given names and surnames are possible in the full name.
Another example is last names that indicate relation to religious groups such as Zoroastrian (e.g. Goshtaspi, Namiranian, Azargoshasp), Jewish (e.g. Yaghubian [Jacobean], Hayyem [Life], Shaul [Saul]) or Muslim (e.g. Alavi, Islamnia, Montazeri) Last names are arbitrary; their holder need not to have any relation with their meaning.
The account of their origin, given by Mr. Nisbet, and other historians, is, that in the reign of king Kenneth II, a kinsman, and favourite of that king, being taken prisoner by the Picts, was put to death, and hung up upon a gallows in view of the Scots camp. King Kenneth being highly provoked and incensed at the affront, offered a considerable ...