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Stephenson is a medieval patronymic surname meaning "son of Stephen". The earliest public record is found in the county of Huntingdonshire in 1279. There are variant spellings including Stevenson. People with the surname include:
Adcock is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Aitchison is a Scottish surname of Scots origin. It derives from the pet name Atkin, which is a diminutive of Adam.
Harley is a surname, and may refer to
Brookes is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Colston is a surname, and also a given name. The name has several origins. It is sometimes from a Middle English given name Colstan, probably from Old Norse kol "charcoal" and steinn "stone". It may also be an English habitation name, from Colston Bassett or Car Colston in Nottinghamshire, or from Coulston in Wiltshire.
Adamson is an English patronymic surname meaning "son of Adam". It is rare as a given name, although there has been a tradition in some families for the first-born son to be called Adam. People with the surname Adamson include:
Hore is an English surname, a variant of Hoare, and is derived from the Middle English hor(e) meaning grey- or white-haired. Notable people with the surname include:
Colclough is a surname of English origin. It is derived from a place called Cowclough in Whitworth, Lancashire.
Rood is a Dutch surname. Meaning "red", it often originally referred to a person with red hair. The name can also be toponymic, since in Middle Dutch "rood" or "rode" was a name for a cleared area in the woods. Among variant forms are De Rood(e), Roode, Roodt and 'Van Rood. The name can also be of English toponymic origin, referring to someone living near a rood ("cross"). Notable people with the surname include:
Cullen is an Irish surname. It is an Anglicised form of Gaelic Ó Cuileáin 'descendant of Cuileán', a name meaning 'wolfhound whelp', 'young hound'. It is also considered by some to mean the 'handsome one'. The Uí Cuileáin of County Tyrone were erenaghs of Clogher.
Stickland is a surname of British origin, which may be a locational surname, indicating a person from the village of Stickland in the parish of Winterborne Stickland, Dorset. Alternatively, it may be a topographic name for a person who lived by a steep slope, from the Middle English stickel ("steep") and "land". The surname may refer to:
Adderley is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Birks is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Brownlee is an English or Scottish toponymic surname, named after Brownlee, Lanarkshire or Brownley, Warwickshire. Notable people with the surname include:
Feaver is a surname. It is an English surname of Norman French origin, and is an anglicisation of Lefebvre, meaning "smith". Notable people with the surname include:
Franks is an Anglo-American surname, derived from the given name Frank and originally came from England and Germany. The name was in the early records, of the Virginia Colony, starting in the 1660s. The Jewish surname, Franks has also been found as early as the 17th century, in New York City.
Timmins is a surname which originated in a number of different countries. It is found mainly in Great Britain, Ireland, America, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. In England, the largest concentration of the name exists in the West Midlands; variants of the name include Timmings and Timmons. An early example of the name can be found in the Subsidy Rolls of Sussex (1332) - Richard Tymyng. In Ireland, it is mainly an anglicisation of the Gaelic surnames Toimín from Leinster and Ó Tiomáin from Ulster.
Batley is a surname of English origin. It is likely derived from the town of Batley in West Yorkshire.
Pain is a surname. The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland records it as a variant of Payne, along with Paine, Payn, Pane, Payen, Payan, Panes, and Pagan. The name Payne is believed to derive from the medieval English personal name Pagan. The Dictionary of American Family Names describes Pain as a variant of the name Paine.
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- ↑ Hanks, Patrick; Coates, Richard; McClure, Peter (2016). The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland. Oxford University Press. p. 201. ISBN 978-0-19-252747-9. OCLC 964412220 . Retrieved 18 January 2021.
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