Stephens is a surname. It is a patronymic and is recorded in England from 1086.
Crosse is a surname, and may refer to:
Strickland is an English toponymic surname derived from the manor of Strickland in the historical county of Westmorland, now Cumbria, England, represented geographically by the modern villages of Great Strickland and Little Strickland. The surname dates as far back as the 12th century in Westmorland, and is also found at an early date in the Scottish counties of Ayrshire and Lanarkshire.
See also Woolf, Woolfe, Wolff, Wolfson and Woolfson.
Corbet is a surname, and may refer to
Graham is a surname of Scottish and English origin. It is typically an Anglo-French form of the name of the town of Grantham, in Lincolnshire, England. The settlement is recorded in the 11th century Domesday Book variously as Grantham, Grandham, Granham and Graham. This place name is thought to be derived from the Old English elements grand, possibly meaning "gravel", and ham, meaning "hamlet" the English word given to small settlements of smaller size than villages.
Arthur is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Key is an English and Dutch-language surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Seely is a variation of the English and Anglo-Irish Sealy surname, and may refer to:
Barclay is a Scottish surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Malet is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Forrest is a surname of English and Scottish origins. This name derives from the Old French "forest". The word was introduced by the Normans, and referred to a Royal Forest. Variants include Forest, De Forest, De Forrest, DeForest and DeForrest. Forrest is associated with Clan Forrester and Clan Douglas. Variants of the name are first recorded in England in the early 13th century. Hugh de Foresta is mentioned in the Curia Regis rolls in 1204. There was a Templar knight, Guy de Foresta, who was Master of the Temple, n 1290–1294. One Adam ate forest appears in the Subsidy Rolls of Kent in 1300. In Scotland the name is first mentioned in the Morton Register of 1376 where William de Forest is found in Newlands, Scottish Borders. Morgan de Forest is found in Aberdeen in 1402, and a William of Forest was physician to the Queen in 1430. In 1505 John Forrest is recorded as succeeding his father John as owner of Gamelshiel castle in East Lothian. The name is first recorded in Ireland in 1566 where Piers Forest was a merchant in Cork. The Forrest baronets of Comiston in Edinburgh had a coat of arms containing three oak trees and the motto "vivunt dum virent". The influential pioneer family of Western Australia also have this motto and similar arms in their history.
Loder is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Pigot is an English surname.
Cotton is an Anglo-Saxon surname, derived from place names such as Coton, Cottam and Cotham, which in turn are named for the Old English word cot meaning cottage or hut, and as an (unrelated) French surname, from the diminutive of cotte, meaning coat of mail. Notable people with the surname include:
Pollock is a surname. In some cases, it originates as a locative name derived from Upper Pollock, Renfrewshire, Scotland. An early bearer of a form of this surname is Peter de Pollok, in about 1172–1178. In other cases, the surname is derived from the Middle English personal name *Pollok. An early bearer of a form of this surname is Roger Pollok, in 1332.
Lake is an English surname.
Roche is a surname of Norman origin. Notable people with this surname include:
Proctor is an English occupational surname, originally meaning 'steward', derived from Latin procurare.
Lafontaine is a French topographic surname for someone who lived near a spring or well.
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