origin of surname Stickney?
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Stickney \n\nEnglish: habitational name from a place in Lincolnshire, so named from the genitive case of Old English sticca ‘long strip of land’ + ēg ‘island’, i.e. a strip of land between streams.
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Im sure the answer is 'tarrthalai' and there's a fada over the second 'a' and the last letter 'i'. It's pronounced something like 'TAR-hawl-ee'\n\nHope this helps\n\nHave you decided what name to take yet, check out this website, it could give you some idea's www.rootsweb.com/~fianna/surname\nthe last bit on that web address is surname\n\nAh thanks croga xx
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All I can find out is that the name Chesher is derived from when a Cresher family lived in Cheshire, first heard outside England was a Thomas Chesher who settled in New England USA. Sorry it`s not much. Hope it help`s
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go here to know what your name means:\n \nhttp://www.babynamesworld.com/\n \n \ngo here to check what your last name means:\n \nhttp://landing.ancestry.com/learn/clues/fact.aspx?html=freetrial&fid=10&sourcecode=17397&fn=&ln=mendoza&submit=go&o_xid=0039762141&o_lid=0039762141
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surnames, actually stem from the a person's title for royalty, and for other people it would come form their occupations, ex. Bob the Smith, of John the Taylor, and their family would be associated by the father.  over time it just caught on and surnames would evolve and transformed into what they are today
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My cousin did our genealogy and discovered our family descended from English royalty. I don't know his name, I was young and was kind of ho-hum about it at the time but other family members were real excited about it. Sorry, no link.
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Átha is Gaelic, meaning ford (fording place in a river).\nIt is a common surname in old Ireland.
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The origin of the term is disputed. One theory customarily held by persons not from New England claims that it originated from the Dutch in old New Amsterdam (today known as New York City) in the Mid-Atlantic States. It then was adopted by the British as a pejorative for (Northern) colonists. The origin might have been the phrase Jan Kees ("John Cornelius") (two very common Dutch names), which the English-speaking people picked up as "yankees", a word they used to refer to the Dutch.
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kaylyn\n\nkayley is a morphed irish name..  caol meaning slender.\nlyn is also from the welsh llyn, which means lake.\n\nthe book i'm looking at doesn't really say much about the italian version of your name, so i'm going to have some fun here!\n\ncara-beloved, dear (from carus)\nlina-bringer of good news (a short form of evangelina)\n\nso maybe...  Caralina?
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It is an Irish short form of "William", which is from the Germanic name Wilhelm, which was composed of the elements wil "will, desire" and helm "helmet, protection". The name was introduced to Britain by the Normans.\n\nWK
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apparently, from the article, he was a christian missionary from great britain that went to ireland to convert people.(that's the short version)\n\nAccording to his Confessio, Patrick was born in vico banavem taburniae, somewhere along the west coast of Great Britain or north coast of France.[2] Vico means 'little settlement' or 'village'. Bannavem is the placename. Taburniae is a suffix meaning 'of the Taburnia', probably relating to a tribal group. However, it has been argued that the correct spelling should be Bannaventa Burniae possibly meaning the 'Promontory Hill of the Burnia'.\n\nThe place has never been identified with certainty. Suggested sites include Dumbarton, Kirkpatrick in Dumfries and Galloway, Urswick [3] and Birdoswald (Latin: Banna) in Cumbria, Banwen in south west Wales, Banwell in Somerset and Norton (Latin: Bannaventa) in Northamptonshire. A further claim is made for Boulogne-sur-Mer, then a part of Armorica.[4]
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Calyborri\n\nCalyborri Ine Kneale was my ancestress from Mallenhowne, Isle of Man.\n\nAlwara, Alvarissa, Lucia, Alice, Helwise, Bridget, Ada, etc. are all other names from that time period in my family tree.\n\nIf you want Norse/Viking names, I have a BUNCH of those too!
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Its a hard to find name with no origins at least one that I can find :)
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From the ridge at end, it appears to be an English surname.  English surnames ( set up in the early Middle Ages) are of 4 types- Father's name (Robertson) , nickname (Jolley or could be a town) or descriptor(Brown), occupation (Baker) and place of residence as in Swatridge.  The Swat part may be a dialect word. It could also be swathe- a track melded into ridge or a swatch  - an English eastern dialect word- meaning a channel between sandbars, but maybe not, you wouldn't want to live there .  One of the things about the place surnames in medieval English is that people must have been living all over the landscape, not just huddled in small agricultural villages.  \nMany surnames that appear in later countries that one emigrated to have been mistranslated by immigration officers at point of landing, and also many names have variants,  Spelling didn't settle down until the late 19th century, though surnames tend to be very conservative and don't change spelling if they are in theri place of origin. \nMaybe someone kows the dialect meaning of Swat?
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Name History and Origin for  Wilhite \nLast Name \nWilhite\nGerman: Americanized spelling of Willeit, a variant of Willeitner, a habitational name from a more recent form of the place name Weillitnen in northern Bavaria. Willeit is probably also a topographic name from Middle High German wil ‘small settlement’ + leite ‘slope’
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The surname is often based on people's professions way back in history.  So someone who is a Smith could have been a blacksmith, silversmith, goldsmith etc.  My maiden name was King, but unfortunately it doesn't mean I have royal connections.  When the street players (mummers) used to entertain people in the market places, the character who used to play the King often got called that off-stage.
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Ukranian: Martinovich. \nI found it here:\nhttp://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~alan/family/S-Martyn.html