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Title: What does your Surname mean.
Post by: zirk on 06 June 2017, 18:15:03: Surname look up (free), if your name comes back as "English Variant of ie, XYZ" then search XYZ instead.

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Mine comes back as a Maker of Cooper or Wooden Barrel for Beer or Spirit, formerly from Germany, Denmark, Swiss Borders, Hmm Beer,.... :) they could be on to something there. :y ;D
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Post by: BazaJT on 06 June 2017, 18:21:02: Maker of nails
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Post by: STEMO on 06 June 2017, 18:26:56: Handsome and intelligent. :)
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Post by: plym ian on 06 June 2017, 18:28:21: Mine has no meaning :o
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Post by: Kevin Wood on 06 June 2017, 18:52:06: Quote
mainly a topographic name for someone who lived in or by a wood or a metonymic occupational name for a woodcutter or forester, from Middle English wode ‘wood’ (Old English wudu). nickname for a mad, eccentric, or violent person, from Middle English wod ‘mad’, ‘frenzied’ (Old English wad), as in Adam le Wode, Worcestershire 1221.

Figures. ::)
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Post by: Migv6 le Frog Fan on 06 June 2017, 19:06:08: Broad thicket. :-X ::)
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Post by: Lagondanet on 06 June 2017, 19:56:57: Interesting. I did a much genealogical research some years back but petered out. Lot of software provided by the Church of Latter Day Saints. On 4.5 & 3 inch discs! But lost interest. Name means 'sexual prowess'! ;D
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Post by: Lizzie Zoom on 06 June 2017, 20:02:34: Free. And so I am! ;D
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Post by: Sir Tigger KC on 06 June 2017, 20:12:19: Valiant/Steadfast :)
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Post by: redelitev6 on 06 June 2017, 21:14:37: my stepfathers name English: apparently an occupational name for a tipstaff or beadle who carried a long staff as a badge of office; perhaps also a nickname for a very tall, thin man, or even an obscene nickname for a man with a long sexual organ. The surname is found chiefly in northeastern England.
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Post by: Doctor Gollum on 06 June 2017, 21:34:52: Quote from: plym ian on 06 June 2017, 18:28:21
Mine has no meaning :o
Mine neither... family legend is that it was a spelling mistake on an orphan register, probably in the late 1700s looking at the census data. It would also appear that I am of Kentish descent... the posh part of Gravesend, ie on the river... ::), by the look of it :D
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Post by: Nick W on 06 June 2017, 21:59:16: Mine's Wheeler, so it's an occupational name: an ancestor back in the middle ages made wheels.
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Post by: ronnyd on 06 June 2017, 22:28:55: Mine is a rampart builder or, for short, Dyke :D. Didn,t realise we had them in Saxon times. ;)
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Post by: Rods2 on 06 June 2017, 23:05:57: Oldest surname recorded in England and means rapid runner, king's runner or messenger. :y
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Post by: Mister Rog on 06 June 2017, 23:34:06: Super intelligent sex machine. No, really . . . . . ::)

It DOES NOT mean sheep shagger, it really does not.
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Post by: zirk on 06 June 2017, 23:43:12: Quote from: Mister Rog on 06 June 2017, 23:34:06

Super intelligent sex machine. No, really . . . . . ::)

It DOES NOT mean sheep shagger, it really does not.

Its not with that Red Dragon is it?
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Post by: TheBoy on 07 June 2017, 18:12:56: Ladyboy
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Post by: STEMO on 07 June 2017, 18:19:00: Quote from: TheBoy on 07 June 2017, 18:12:56
Ladyboy
Ermmm......no. Elephantboy, maybe. ;D
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Post by: Bigron on 07 June 2017, 18:25:53: Paternal grandfather German - means castle.fortress, so his forebears must have lived near one.

Ron.
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Post by: STEMO on 07 June 2017, 18:31:32: Quote from: Bigron on 07 June 2017, 18:25:53
Paternal grandfather German - means castle.fortress, so his forebears must have lived near one.

Ron.
Or in one.
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Post by: TheBoy on 07 June 2017, 18:32:01: Quote from: STEMO on 07 June 2017, 18:19:00
Quote from: TheBoy on 07 June 2017, 18:12:56
Ladyboy
Ermmm......no. Elephantboy, maybe. ;D
TBH, I CBA to even look what mine means.