Lane (surname)

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Lane is a surname with several origins.

Meanings and origins

A prominent Lane family documented in Staffordshire claim to have Norman ancestry, and list the earliest ancestor as "Adam de Lone" living in 1315. [2] Lane families enjoyed prominence in other counties such as Kent, [3] Gloucestershire, [4] [5] Buckinghamshire, [6] and Northamptonshire [7] where Sir Ralph Lane is theorized to have originated. A knighted Sir Richard Lane is found in Northamptonshire in the early 1600s. [8]

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Tax lists of Buckinghamshire in 1400s list "John atte Lane" and "William atte Lane" with the Saxon term "atte" being the same as the French term "de la", showing topographic reference.

Lane families took part in the Plantations of Ireland as it is theorized Sir George Lane was part of the same family as Sir Ralph Lane. [8]

In 1663, a Matthys Laenen Van Pelt emigrated from Amsterdam to New Jersey. The family appears to have shortened the name to Lane after arriving.

Early Virginia County Tax lists of the late 1700s show Lane families with the spellings of "Lane", "Lain", and "Layne" but with no indication of importance for the different spellings, other than possible separation of unrelated Lane families. By the middle 1800s though, "Lane" was commonly adopted.

Lane is also an Anglicized form, of three Irish Gaelic surnames, however, no evidence showing the following words being used as "Lane" can be found.

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References

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  2. Burke, John (1833). "A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great ..., Volume 1". Google Books. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
  3. "Land, Thomas (d. 1423?), of Canterbury, Kent. | History of Parliament Online". www.historyofparliamentonline.org. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
  4. Chitting, Henry; Philipot, John (1885). The Visitation of the County of Gloucester: Taken in the Year 1623. Mitchell and Hughes, printers. ISBN   9789746029087.
  5. "Land. Thomas (by 1492–1544), of Gloucester and Lincoln's Inn, London. | History of Parliament Online". www.historyofparliamentonline.org. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
  6. "Lane, Thomas (1583–1652), of Hughenden, Bucks. and the Inner Temple, London; later of Perivale, Mdx. | History of Parliament Online". www.historyofparliamentonline.org. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
  7. "Lane, Robert (1527–c.1588), of Hogshaw, Bucks. and Horton, Northants. | History of Parliament Online". www.historyofparliamentonline.org. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
  8. 1 2 Stephen, Leslie (21 March 1892). DNB. Smith, Elder, & Company. p.  78 . Retrieved 6 January 2018 via Internet Archive. sir richard lane tulsk.
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  10. "Irish surname search: (O)Lyne, Lyons, Lehane, Lane". Goireland.com. Archived from the original on 24 January 2013. Retrieved 13 May 2012.