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Melville is a surname and a given name.
Graves is a surname of English origin. Its distribution within England is centered on Lincolnshire, followed in concentration by Lancashire, Yorkshire, Cumbria, and East Anglia. The surname is likely a variant of Grave with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. The surname Grave seems to have its possible origins in: 1. "Occupational name from Middle English greyve, grayve, greve 'steward bailif, manorial officer who managed the lord's demense farm, headman of a town or village', a borrowing from Old Scandinavian greifi 'earl, count". 2. "Locative name from Middle English grave "pit" ". 3. "Relationship name, possibly from the rare Middle English personal name Gre(y)vy, Gre(i)ve, Old Scandinavian Greifi, *Grefe, originally a nickname meaning 'earl, count".
Read is a surname of English origins.
Braithwaite, Brathwaite, or Brathwait is an English surname of Old Norse origin. At the time of the British Census of 1881, the relative frequency of the surname Braithwaite was highest in Westmorland, followed by Cumberland, Yorkshire, Linlithgowshire, Lancashire, County Durham, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Anglesey and Flintshire. Notable people with the surname include:
Cameron is a Scottish surname and thus somewhat common throughout the English-speaking world.
Latham is an Old Scandinavian surname.
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Hamill is a surname originally of Norman origin, a habitational name from Haineville or Henneville in Manche France named from the ancient Germanic personal name Hagano, Old French ville ‘settlement’.
Norton is a surname with origin from the basic Early English norþ + tun, meaning North settlement. There are many English villages called Norton or including Norton as part of the name, e.g. Midsomer Norton, Chipping Norton, Brize Norton etc. When surnames started to be used in the Middle Ages, a man from such a village might have the name added e.g. Tom of Norton. Alternatively a man from the north side of any village might be given the name Tom Norton to distinguish him from a Tom from the south side. A secondary source for the surname is from the anglicisation of Celtic surnames. It is also sometimes found as a Jewish surname. The famous Emperor Norton in San Francisco was of Jewish origin from a South African settler family.
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References
- ↑ "Catterall", Surname Database, retrieved 28 June 2017
- ↑ Mills, David (1986). The Place Names of Lancashire. Batsford. p. 71. ISBN 978-0-7134-5236-5.
- ↑ Fellows Jensen, Gillian (1985). Scandinavian Settlement Names in the North-West. Navnestudier (København). Vol. 25. C.A. Reitzels Forlag. p. 114. ISBN 9788774214434.
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