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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]
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"
Cornish surnames are surnames used by Cornish people and often derived from the Cornish language such as Jago, Trelawney or Enys. Others have strong roots in the region and many in the UK with names such as Eddy, Stark or Rowe are likely to have Cornish origins. Such surnames for the common people emerged in the Middle Ages, although the ...
A list of "Latin forms of English surnames" is included as an appendix in Andrew Wright's Court Hand Restored, or the Student's Assistant in reading Old Deeds, Charters, Records, etc., [20] published in 9 editions up to 1879.
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]