Donaldson is a Scottish and Irish patronymic surname meaning "son of Donald". It is a simpler Anglicized variant for the name MacDonald. Notable people with the surname include:
Gooch is a surname. Gooch or the Gooch is also a nickname. It may refer to:
Archer is a surname in the English language.
Hope is an English, Scottish and Norwegian surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Thorne is a surname of English origin, originally referring to a thorn bush. Thorne is the 1,721st most common surname name in the United States.[1]
Cavanagh or Cavanaugh is a surname of Irish origin, a variation of the Irish family surname Caomhánach.
Haywood is a surname. Notable people and characters with the surname include:
Nash is a surname of Irish, English and Welsh. The surname went from "Ash" to "Nash" by colloquialism, and was established from an early date in Ireland and Wales, with an etymology meaning ash or 'near' the ash tree. Nash as the Americanization of similar sounding Jewish surnames has also been proposed. A similar word, Nahash, means serpent in Hebrew.
Pierce is an English, Welsh, and Irish surname. The name is a cognate of French Pierre ('Peter'). Notable people with that surname include:
Shaw is most commonly a surname and rarely a given name.
Farrell is a surname of Irish origin. It is the anglicized form of the Gaelic patronym Ó Fearghail. The Farrells were hereditary Chiefs and Princes of Annaly.
Godfrey is a given name and an English surname. The given name is derived from the Old French Godefroy, a name composed of the elements: the first being either God ("God") or gōd ("good"); the second being fred ("peace"). The name was brought to England by settlers from Normandy, the Low Countries, and France. The name is rendered Goraidh, Goiridh in Scottish Gaelic. In some cases the surname is derived from the Middle English personal name Godfrey, Godefrey; or the Old French Godefrei, Godefroi, Godefrois; or the Continental Germanic Godefrid. In other cases, the surname is derived from the Irish Mac Gothraidh or Ó Gothraidh.
Goodwin is a surname.
Stanton is an English toponymic surname.
Bowler is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Chambers is a common surname of English origin. It usually denoted either a servant who worked in his master's private chambers, or a camararius, a person in charge of an exchequer room. At the time of the British census of 1881, the relative frequency of the surname Chambers was highest in Nottinghamshire, followed by Northamptonshire, Huntingdonshire, Lincolnshire, Bedfordshire, Rutland, Suffolk, Derbyshire, Haddingtonshire and Kent. Related surnames include Chalmers and Chamberlain.
Sparrow is a surname derived from the common name of the bird.
Grayson is a surname that is most probably either an anglicization of the Scottish or Irish clan surnames Grierson or Gray; alternatively, it can also be found in Northern England as a derivative of the English surname Gravesson, meaning "son of the reeve". It has been postulated as a Clan Gregor alias, but there is little surviving information to support this claim.
Parkinson is a surname, and may refer to:
The Winterbottom family was a family of military band musicians active in the British forces in the nineteenth and early 20th centuries. The best known was Frank Winterbottom: he was director of music, Royal Marine Bands between 1890 and 1910.
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