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Evans surname origins in Ireland. The last name Evans is relatively common among Irish people. I’ve been doing some research and most sources say that Evans is from Wales and is an anglicized version of the Welsh name Ifan. However some sources say that Evans is (also) an anglicized version of the Irish name O’hEimhin.
In the US, at least, archivists at local universities and historical societies tend to be very experienced in helping with genealogical research, so they really are your best bet. I don't know about the research resources in South Africa, though. Good luck! 1. Award.
92 for the "similar but slightly different meaning" of my surname. My family were the medieval equivalent of construction engineers in Eastern Europe. The surname means "Builder of Great Houses," (the houses and lodges of feudal lords) but the alternative more common spelling means "Builder of Houses" (the houses of commoners)
Marlowe Freudenberg - Marlowe is from a surname which was derived from a place name meaning "remnants of a lake" in Old English. Freudenberg is a rather german name. Bertholdt Hoover - Means "bright ruler" from the Germanic beraht "bright" combined with wald "rule". Hoover is german as well. Marcel Galliard - French form of ”Marcellus”.
Patronyms were also used in the Netherlands and to an extent in northern Germany. But in any event, these names just originally meant "son of Lubbert" and "daughter of Jan" and "son of Thomas" and "son of Marten" and at some point they stopped using that naming pattern and just started using it as a surname inherited across multiple generations instead.
Surname origins are incredibly difficult to nail down, and really, really fluid. Some people adopted a surname simply because they liked it, or because they were in servitude/slavery. Some had them assigned to them upon immigration (the scene in Godfather Part II is not fantasy).
Two or more unrelated people can have the same surname (very likely in the case of surnames derived from professions or common place names). Personal coats of arms are adopted by an individual and are passed down to their descendants. Maybe you're lucky and this particular blazon corresponds to one of your ancestors.
Hi! So, because of inquisition, we know Dalish elves use their clan name as surname. I want to say city elves don’t use them, but then we have Tabris from origins. Whether that’s the rule or the exception I couldn’t say. Human nobles have surnames for sure. Ferelden, Free Marches, Orlais, Tevinter, etc. All nobles appear to have them, so far.
namaskar, doesn’t anyone have any idea about Rane surname’s origins? Like I have heard about other surnames and where they came from especially surnames that end with -kar, other surnames I heard in Maratha Empire, like Bhosale, Deshmukh, Godhpade, Malusare etc, Even tho Rane falls under 96Kuuli Maratha but still no stories or never heard ...
The written down oral history includes the supposedly “original” spellings for surnames. A fair number of these spellings are not Lithuanian. Running them through forebears.io shows many of the spellings are Belarusian. Using a Lithuanian spelling of my great grandfather’s surname shows that it exists, but it’s rare.