English-language surnames

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 243. Chapters: Levett, List of Scottish Gaelic surnames, Hall (surname), Spencer (surname), Jackson (name), Tyndall, Chapman (surname), List of people with surname Carpenter, Cloud (surname), Green (surname), Firby, Lewis (surname), Carter (name), Collins (surname), Murray (surname), Smith (surname), Anderson (surname), Howell (surname), Morrison (surname), Leavitt (surname), Wright, Hunter (name), Kelly (surname), Cox (surname), Kent (surname), Palmer (surname), Stone (surname), Armstrong (surname), Carpenter (surname), Cook (surname), Abbott (surname), McCauley (surname), Walker (surname), Hubbard (surname), Bartholomew (name), Archer (surname), Robinson (name), Nelson (surname), Cooper (surname), Hardy (surname), McCawley, Hart (surname), Burns (surname), Thompson (surname), List of people with surname Spencer, Cartwright (surname), Bull (surname), Tucker (surname), Bates, McAuley (surname), Sweeney (name), Macaulay (surname), Jonas (name), Creelman, Orr (surname), Davidson (name), Turner, Shepherd (surname), Mason (surname), Sherman (name), Lister (surname), Simpson (name), Jones (surname), Gibson (surname), Mitchell (surname), Hill (surname), Evelyn (name), Crawford (name), Clark, Baxter (name), Morris (surname), Thomson (surname), Porter (name), King (surname), Ward (surname), Dunn (surname), Townsend (name), Atkinson (surname), Potter (surname), Sharp (surname), Burgess (surname), Hackett (surname), Phelps (surname), Dixon (surname), Florence (given name), Duke (surname), Nixon (surname), Graham (surname), Hatch (surname), Nicholson (surname), Lucy, McCann (surname), Currie (surname), Harman (surname), Parker (surname), Baker (surname), Davenport (surname), Barker (surname), Fitzsimons, Ferguson (name), Fuller (surname), Poland (surname), Ryan (surname), Broughton (name), Marshall (name), Stanley (surname), Goodman (surname), Gilbert (surname), Bain (surname), Peterson (name), Little, Dawson (surname), Hastings (name), Bowie (surname), Brennan (surname), Crowley (surname), Greenwood (surname), Brown (surname), Osman (name), Hanson (surname), Goldsmith (surname), Astle, Hicks (surname), Bradley. Excerpt: Levett is an Anglo-Norman territorial surname deriving from the village of Livet-en-Ouche, now Jonquerets-de-Livet, in Eure, Normandy. Ancestors of the earliest Levett family in England, the de Livets were lords of the village of Livet, and undertenants of the de Ferrers, among the most powerful of William the Conqueror's Norman lords. One branch of the de Livet family came to England during the Norman Conquest, nearly a thousand years ago, and were prominent first in Leicestershire, and later in Derbyshire, Cheshire, Ireland and Sussex, where they held many manors, including the lordship of Firle. The name Livet (first recorded as Lived in the 11th century), of Gaulish etymology, may mean a "place where yew-trees grow". Like many Normans, the family's origins are probably partly Scandinavian. The year of the family's arrival in England is uncertain. But the family name appears in the records of William the Conqueror. The first family member in England, Roger de Livet, appears in Domesday as a tenant of the Norman magnate Henry de Ferrers. de Livet held land in Leicestershire, and was, along with Ferrers, a benefactor of Tutbury Priory. By about 1270, when the Dering Roll was crafted to display the coats of arms of 324 of England's most powerful lords, the coat of arms of Robert Livet, Knight, was among t...