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Pages in category "English-language occupational surnames" The following 198 pages are in this category, out of 198 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Pages in category "Occupational surnames" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,445 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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Pages in category "Surnames of English origin" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 720 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Pages in category "English-language surnames" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 3,381 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Recorded as both Tucker and Tooker, the derivation of the English occupational surname comes from the Old English, pre-7th century verb tucian, meaning "to torment".It would have been for a fuller, also known as a "walker", one who softened freshly woven cloth by beating and tramping on it in water.
Ward is a surname of either Old English or Old Gaelic origin, common in English-speaking countries. The Old English name derives from an occupational surname for a civil guard/keeper of the watch, or alternately as a topographical surname from the word werd ("marsh"). The Old Irish surname is linguistically unrelated, and derives from Mac an ...
The Middle English name Hine (with the addition of the genitive-s case ending, implying that the name-bearer was the child of a father called Hine, or addition of -s on the analogy of such names). This occupational name derives from Old English hīne ('household servant, farm labourer'), but in the Middle English period could also mean 'farm ...