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Pages in category "Surnames of Old English origin" The following 84 pages are in this category, out of 84 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 (84 P) T. English toponymic surnames (454 P)
This category is for surnames found in the English language Subcategories. This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total. ...
Surnames of Old English origin (84 P) C. Celtic-language surnames (7 C, 12 P) E. Eliot family (3 C, 1 P) ... Pages in category "Surnames of British Isles origin"
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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]
One example of this process regarding surnames is the surname "Kneebone" which actually derives from the Cornish "Carn Ebwen" or the "tomb", "carn" of "Ebwen". The change must have occurred at a point when the original "k" at the beginning of the English word was still pronounced and thus suggests an early period in which it was anglicised.
Several surnames have multiple spellings; this is sometimes due to unrelated families bearing the same surname. A single surname in either language may have multiple translations in the other. In some English translations of the names, the M(a)c- prefix may be omitted in the English, e.g. Bain vs MacBain, Cowan vs MacCowan, Ritchie vs MacRitchie.