The name Trollope is derived from the place-name Troughburn, in Northumberland, England, originally Trolhop, Norse for "troll valley". The earliest recorded use of the surname is John Andrew Trolope (1427–1461) who lived in Thornlaw, Co. Durham and Sir Andrew Trollope who was an English soldier during the later stages of the Hundred Years' War and at the time of the Wars of the Roses.
Gomperz, Gompertz, Gumpertz, Gumperz, Gomperts or Gompers is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Cronin is derived from the Irish surname Ó Cróinín which originated in County Cork, and the Old Irish word crón, meaning saffron-colored. The Cronin family have been prominent in politics and the arts in Ireland, the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom since the nineteenth century.
Swales is an English surname. It either derives from the River Swale or Swallow Hill. Notable people with the surname include:
Hitchens is a surname of early medieval English origin. Notable people with the surname include:
Schaefer is an alternative spelling and cognate for the German word schäfer, meaning 'shepherd', which itself descends from the Old High German scāphare. Variants "Shaefer", "Schäfer", the additional alternative spelling "Schäffer", and the anglicised forms "Schaeffer", "Schaffer", "Shaffer", "Shafer", and "Schafer" are all common surnames.
Mullin is a surname of Irish origin. Notable people with the name include:
Brunt is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Latham is an Old Scandinavian surname.
Tower and Towers are English surnames which may refer to:
Buckler is an English and German surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Cowell is an English language surname.
Gubbins is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Quested is an English surname. It originated as a toponymic surname referring to Wherstead in the county of Suffolk. Variant spellings include Quersted and Querstede. Early records of bearers of this surname include a John Querstede of Norfolk in the Close Rolls for 1376.
Sparrow is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Downey is an Irish surname that means in English “belonging to a fort”. The name is found from ancient times in areas of Ireland's modern County Galway, southwest Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Ulster and Leinster and is believed to be the surname of three distinct families. In Ulster, Downey were the chiefs of the Ulaid petty-kingdom of Cinel Amhalgaidh, now known in the Anglicised form as Clanawley in County Down, Northern Ireland.
Raynes is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Feaver is a surname. It is an English surname of Norman French origin, and is an anglicisation of Lefebvre, meaning "smith". Notable people with the surname include:
Hinchliffe is an English surname deriving from the place called Hinchcliff, near Holmfirth, in West Yorkshire. Notable people with the surname include:
Thirkell is a surname. People with that name include:
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