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Croft is a surname of English origin; notable people with this 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.
Worsley is a habitational surname with several points of origin, particularly Lancashire and Worcestershire. Notable people with the name include:
Broderick is a surname of early medieval English origin, and subsequently the Anglicised versions of names of Irish and Welsh origin.
Pickard is a surname, an Anglicised version of Picard, originally meaning a person from Picardy, a historical region and cultural area of France.
Barclay is a Scottish surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Hanks is a surname of English, or Dutch origin, meaning "son of Hankin" and may refer to:
Connolly is a surname of Irish origin. Notable people with the surname include:
Gubbins is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Chisholm is a Scottish surname. Variants include Chisholme and Chisolm.
Andrew is sometimes used as a surname. It is derived from the given name Andrew.
Addison is a Scottish patronymic surname meaning "son of Addie", a Scottish Lowlands nickname for Adam.
The surname "Lyall" is found early in Scotland and was derived from the Old Scandinavian given name "Liulfr", where "ulfr" means literally "wolf". After the Viking settlement in Scotland name sounds would have changed. For example, "Liulfr" is pronounced 'lee-oolv-ur', but after time probably softened in pronunciation to 'lee-ooler' and then 'loo-il' and finally 'lyall' after the Old Norse "R" was dropped off the end. The Lyall Clan is a Sept of Clan Sinclair a Highland Scottish clan of Norman origin a people descended from Norse Vikings who held lands in the north of Scotland, the Orkney Islands, and the Lothians.
Neave is a surname. 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.
Woodhead is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Volk is a surname. It means wolf in several Slavic languages, and it refers to people in German. German Volk is the cognate of English folk and related to Fulk, French Foulques, Italian Fulco and Swedish Folke, along with other variants such as Fulke, Foulkes, Fulko, Folco and Folquet. Notable people with the surname include:
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References
- ↑ Browne, W.A.F.; Reaney, P.H.; Wilson, R.M.; Scull, A. (1991). A Dictionary of English Surnames. Tavistock classics in the history of psychiatry. Routledge. p. 960. ISBN 978-0-415-05737-0 . Retrieved 26 August 2018.
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