The Fleming name is a Latin word meaning someone from Flanders (around Belgium/Netherlands) - as a family name, it was first seen in around the 11th or 12th centuries. To the best of my knowledge, there are Flemings with heritage in about 13 different countries, probably all going back to the Flanders area if you can track it there. Charles >Well I don't know when the last ice age ended in Scotland, but Cork >being a bit farther south, perhaps it ended a little sooner there! Can >someone tell me where the Fleming name generally originated? It's >starting to look as if a ggrandmother of mine from the parish of Aghada >in Co. Cork was named Ellen Fleming, she married James Roche in l865, in >Cork. Her mother may also have been called Ellen, born approx l820, >not sure of place of birth. > >Thanks, > >Colman Ahern, >Berkeley. > >Still looking for: Ahern, Burke, Fleming, Mowett, Roche. > > >