Douglas, occasionally spelt Douglass, is a Scottish surname. It is thought to derive from the Scottish Gaelic dubh glas, meaning "black stream". There are numerous places in Scotland from which the surname is derived. The surname has developed into the given name Douglas. Douglas is a habitational name, which could be derived from any of the many places so-named. While there are numerous places with this name in Scotland, it is thought, in most cases, to refer to Douglas, South Lanarkshire, the location of Douglas Castle, the chief stronghold of the Lords of Douglas. The Scottish Gaelic form of the given name is Dùbhghlas ; the Irish-language forms are Dúghlas and Dubhghlas, which are pronounced. According to George Fraser Black, in southern Argyllshire the surname is an Anglicised form of the surnames MacLucas, MacLugash.
Lucas is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Hardy is an English, French, and Scottish surname.
Weston as a surname may refer to:
Hussey is a surname. The surname is common in the British Isles, as well as locations associated with settlement by the people of these regions. The name has two main sources of origin. The first is of Norman origin, coming from the region of La Houssaye in Northern France. In Old French, the name relates to holly. Hussey also has an Irish origin, stemming from the Ó hEodhasa family.
Griffiths is a surname with Welsh origins, as in Gruffydd ap Llywelyn Fawr. People named Griffiths include:
Arnold is a German and English surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Forster is a north English surname meaning "forester". It can also be an anglicization of Förster or Foerster, a German surname meaning the same. Some indigenous south Germans independently carry the name Forster, while East Prussian Forsters are descendants of an 18th-century English Forster family. Notable people with this surname include:
Hodgkinson is an English-language surname. Notable people with the name include:
Upton is a surname of English origin and a rarely used given name. At the time of the British Census of 1881 Upton Surname at Forebears, the frequency of the surname Upton was highest in Sussex, followed by Oxfordshire, Leicestershire, Staffordshire, Nottinghamshire, Warwickshire, Kent, Bedfordshire and Derbyshire. The name Upton is a variation of Upperton and is derived from the Old English for Upper Ton, Upper Enclosure or Upper Field.
Fox is a surname originating in England and Ireland. The derivation is from the Middle English "fox", itself coming from the Old English pre 7th century "fox". The surname first appears on record in the latter part of the 13th century, with the first recorded spelling in 1273 to be that of John Fox in the "Hundred Rolls of Yorkshire", England. In Ireland, Fox is mainly a translation of the Old Gaelic "Mac a'tSionnaigh".
Adair is a surname of Scotland. A common misconception is that the surname is related to Edgar, Eadgar, O'daire or MacDaire. Robert Fitzgerald De Athdare was the first Adair. He was from what is now Limerick, Ireland.
Sheridan is an Irish surname. It is derived from the Irish Gaelic Ó Sirideáin 'descendant of Sirideáin', a given name meaning 'to seek'. Originating in County Longford, the Sheridans were erenaghs of Granard, but in the County Cavan served the O'Reillys.
Barber is an English, Norman French and Catalan surname. Related names include: Barbieri (Italian), Barbero, Barbeiro (Portuguese), Barbier (French). Barbiero (Italian), Barberis (Italian) and Barberopoulou (Greek) are also related. Notable people with the surname include:
Hartley is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Crowe is a surname of Middle English origin. Its Old English origin means 'crow', and was a nickname for someone said to resemble this bird, probably if they had very dark hair. The name is historically most common in the English Counties of Norfolk and Suffolk particularly around the City of Norwich. The name may alternatively have an Irish origin: in Ireland, it may originate as an anglicisation of Mac Enchroe a clan of munster while in the Isle of Man it represents an anglicised version of Mc Crawe (1540).
Butterworth is an English toponymic surname. It is derived from the former township of Butterworth, Lancashire, England, an area in which the surname was still very common as of 2014.
Mansfield is an English surname derived from Mansfield in Nottinghamshire or a similar toponym. It can also be a variant of the surname Mansell or Maunsell, as can be illustrated by the case of the politician and Royal Navy Admiral Sir Robert Mansell.
Wilton is the surname of:
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