Does anyone know where the surname OVENELL comes from or what it might mean. The person I'm putting in this request for has had no luck so far. Many thanks in anticipation.

Couldn't find the name as given but did find two possibles: \ AVENEL (French) Diminutive of "AVOINE", occupational name for a grower or seller of oats, from Old French "avoine" (oats). The Latin word is "avena". \ EVERILL (English), from the Old English female personal name "Eoforhild" ('eofor' meaning 'wild boar' + 'hild' meaning 'battle'). The surname is chiefly found in the West Midlands. Source: A Dictionary of Surnames by Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges. Barbara hearn-sporne wrote: > Does anyone know where the surname OVENELL comes from or what it might mean. The person I'm putting in this request for has had no luck so far. > Many thanks in anticipation. > > ============================== > Shop Ancestry - Everything you need to Discover, Preserve & Celebrate > your heritage! > http://shop.myfamily.com/ancestrycatalog

Hi, First a thank-you to Barbara for the help on the name Zolkos, I was beginning to despair on the name, till I received your email. Can anyone help on the names Mollard, Warren & Zelinski? Zelinski is another Polish name, my Mollard ancestors came from England and I'm not sure where the Warren's came from. TIA Tania Zolkos [email protected]

Hi there, I have another query about my research interests, namely DELLOR. On the IGI amongst all the DELLERs and DELLORs etc there is a "De Liere" baptised at a Walloon church in Canterbury in 1597. Could the Dellors and varients be of Wallon origin? Thanks Juliet --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.250 / Virus Database: 123 - Release Date: 18/04/01

Thank you, Garry. Now I'm a little wiser. Juliet ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 9:39 PM Subject: [SURNAME-ORIGINS] STREATFIELD > STREATFIELD - Street was originally used to describe a Roman road > in England. DE STRATAVILLA may have been the > Latin name at baptism. Strata may be the same as > the Italian word strada which meant road. Villa just > means house. While Italian families did emigrate to > England, I am not aware of this name being from Italy. > > So the best meaning for this name, in my opinion, > is "dweller at the field of the Roman road." > > There was a Streatfield (sic) in E. Sussex called > "Stretfelde" in the 1500's. I take this to be a road > rather than a family name. > > The name "Street" is found as early as the 1300's > in England. > > Gary Radcliffe > > > ============================== > Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.250 / Virus Database: 123 - Release Date: 18/04/01

MOLLARD - found: \ MALLARD (English) 1. from the Old French personal name 'Malhard', meaning 'madal' (council) + 'hard' (hardy, brave, strong). This was introduced to Britain by the Normans. 2. nickname for someone supposedly resembling a drake or male wild duck. WARREN (English) 1. Norman habitation name from "La Varrenne" in Seine-Maritime, so called from a Gaulic element probably descriptive of alluvial land or sandy soil. 2. topographic name for someone who lived by a gamepark, or occupational name for someone employed in one, from Anglo-Norman-French 'warrene' warren, piece of land for breeding game (of uncertain origin, perhaps akin to #1, or to the Germanic element 'war(in)'- guard, preserve). ZELINSKI - found: \ ZIELINSKI (Polish, Jewish [E. Ashkenazic]) from the vocabulary word 'zielony' green, in various applications. As a Polish name it seems primarily to have been a nickname for person with a sickly 'greenish' complexion. It may also have been a nickname for someone who habitually dressed in green, or who was 'green' in the sense of being immature or inexperienced. Additionally, it may be a habitation name from a place named with this word. As a Jewish name it is mainly an ornamental name. Source: A Dictionary of Surnames by Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges. Barbara Tania Zolkos wrote: > Hi, > First a thank-you to Barbara for the help on the name Zolkos, I was beginning to despair on the name, till I received your email. > > Can anyone help on the names Mollard, Warren & Zelinski? Zelinski is another Polish name, my Mollard ancestors came from England and I'm not sure where the Warren's came from. > > TIA > Tania Zolkos > [email protected] > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry's Library - The best collection of family history > learning and how-to articles on the Internet. > http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library

Hi, Does anyone know the origin of this name (Koeppen)? I am also still looking for the origin of the name Dölger. My ancestors came from Bavaria. Thanks. Mike Dellger

STREATFIELD - Street was originally used to describe a Roman road in England. DE STRATAVILLA may have been the Latin name at baptism. Strata may be the same as the Italian word strada which meant road. Villa just means house. While Italian families did emigrate to England, I am not aware of this name being from Italy. So the best meaning for this name, in my opinion, is "dweller at the field of the Roman road." There was a Streatfield (sic) in E. Sussex called "Stretfelde" in the 1500's. I take this to be a road rather than a family name. The name "Street" is found as early as the 1300's in England. Gary Radcliffe

Hi, I'm new to this list and wondered if I might pick your brains. On an old family tree , the 'Top' man is written as ROBERT STREATFEILD, (DE STRATAVILLA) - he died in 1558. Am I correct in assuming that 'Stratavilla' is a direct translation of Streatfield and if so, would it be French or italian? The reason for this query is that the person in particular came to Kent from seemingly nowhere and married into a well established and wealthy family, and I am trying to work out where he could have come from and if he was of foreign extraction. Thanks for any words of wisdom. Regards Juliet --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.250 / Virus Database: 123 - Release Date: 18/04/01

STREATFIELD, STRATFIELD (English) Habitation name from places in Berkshire and Hants, so called from Old English "straet" (Roman) road + "feld" pasture, open country. (The word "straet" is as close as I can type it. It actually appears in my source as two letters connected so they appear as one, with an accent mark over them.) Couldn't find a reference to the name "DE STRATAVILLA", even in my Italian names book. I'm wondering if it could have been a made up name? From my research I've read that many people in England added the "De" to their names for no other reason than as an affectation. Perhaps they thought it made the name look more important. Source: A Dictionary of Surnames by Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges. Barbara JULIET EVANS wrote: > Hi, I'm new to this list and wondered if I might pick your brains. > On an old family tree , the 'Top' man is written as ROBERT STREATFEILD, > (DE STRATAVILLA) - he died in 1558. Am I correct in assuming that 'Stratavilla' is a direct translation of Streatfield and if so, would it be French or italian? > The reason for this query is that the person in particular came to Kent from > seemingly nowhere and married into a well established and wealthy family, and I am trying to work out where he could have come from and if he was of foreign extraction. > Thanks for any words of wisdom. > Regards > Juliet > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.250 / Virus Database: 123 - Release Date: 18/04/01 > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 > Source for Family History Online. Go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrial1y.asp?sourcecode=F11HB

HINMAN (English) Variant of HINDMAN (English) One who took care of the hinds or deer; the servant of the peasant. Source: New Dictionary of American Family Names by E.C. Smith. Barbara Bob Hoy wrote: > Looking for the origin of the surname Hinman. > > ============================== > Shop Ancestry - Everything you need to Discover, Preserve & Celebrate > your heritage! > http://shop.myfamily.com/ancestrycatalog

Hello all, I have been tracing my family trees for sometime now and with a little help from a chest full of notes left to me by my Great grandfather Guy Rosebery PRIMROSE, have managed to get back to the date of 1411 with the PRIMROSE family and 1500 with the CREMER family PRIMROSE This family also goes under the name PRIMEROSE,PRIMERESE,PRIMROS,PRYMROSE,PRYMEROSE. It starts in Norfolk in a place called South Repps in 1411. I also have a few notes of "The lands of Primrose" in Scotland in the 12th Century. Does anyone know where it actually originated from. Was it France or was it Holland???? CREMER Post 1650 this family is known as CREMER, but pre 1650 it is sometimes known by the alias SCRIME,SKRYME. The family spent most of it's time in NW Norfolk in places like Snettisham and Ingoldisthorpe. They were very wealthy sometimes owning complete villages. The earliest record I have of them is they came from "LECTON, in Norfolk and that was pre 1550. I cannot find any such place. Again where does the surname CREMER and SCRIME originate from???? Can anyone help, any amount would be very welcome. Regards Michael Bird Docking Area List Administrator mailto:[email protected] Visit my website http://www.cremer.co.uk Researching the following:- CREMER:- Snettisham, Fring, Paston, Ingoldisthorpe, Heacham, Sedgeford, Kings Lynn, South Creake, Gimingham, Wymondham, North Runcton, Felbrigg Hall and London (St Giles and St Martins) PRIMROSE:- Wolferton, West Newton, Trunch, South Repps, Thorpe Market, Knapton, North Walsham area, Gimingham, Sidestrand, and Norwich BIRD and LONG:- Deptford (SE London)

Looking for the origin of the surname Hinman.

SKRIME - The following names all seem to mean SKRIMSHIRE; Scrimgeour - Scrimmiger - Scrimmenger, Scrimmerger, Scrimshaw - Scrymgeour, Scrymiger. Gary Radcliffe

CREMER - From the Dutch and German KRAMER. Same as CREAMER and CRAMER. CRAMER is from the Teutonic meaning shopkeeper, stallkeeper, peddler. Dutch meanings include shopkeeper, huckster and Scottish crame, Scandinavian kram, goods. PRIMROSE - (Anglo-French, Latin) a nickname from the flower (A-Fr. primerose, by false analogy for primerole from Late Latin primula, a primrose. [but Old French primerose denoted the hollyhock]. Thomas Primerose.--Close Rolls, 1424-25 A.D. But the ROSEBERRY family took their surname from an estate at Primrose, Co. Fife. Gary Radcliffe

--- Michael and Wendy Bird <[email protected]> wrote: > CREMER > > Post 1650 this family is known as CREMER, but pre > 1650 it is sometimes known by the alias SCRIME, > SKRYME. It is very probable that its origin is Scrimgeo(u)r, then Scrimger, and eventually to Cremer. It means "Fencing master" but was classed with rogues and vagabonds which were not allowed to have schools in London. Side note: the words Scrimshaw and Skirmish also evolved from this name. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/

--- Michael and Wendy Bird <[email protected]> wrote: > I have been tracing my family trees for sometime now > and with a little help from a chest full of notes > left to me by my Great grandfather Guy Rosebery > PRIMROSE, ...... > I also have a few notes of "The lands of Primrose" > in Scotland in the 12th Century. Does anyone know > where it actually originated..... Primrose is a Scots surname and is the Family name of the Earls of Rosebery. It means "tree of the moor". Regards John DeMott __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/

Hi all, I'm looking for the origins of OY and ROSIN surnames . Thanks in advance. -- Slava Kniazev

Thanks again Barbara for all the info. Tom in FL Surnames I am researching: Paternal: Bardon-Barden, Carey, Dunnigan and Hurson. Maternal: Bauer,Eastwood, Emling-Emerling -Emmerling, Finster, Haag, and Schaefer http://community.webtv.net/TOM727/BARDONFAMILYHISTORY

Hi all, I posted this query a little while back and received no answers so I thought I might try again! Zolkos comes from my husband's family who all came over from Poland in the 70's. In Australia it is pronounced as it looks but it was changed slightly from the Polish version so Australian's could pronounce it. It is pronounced more like Zoucosh in Poland. It is written a similar way to Zolkos, but with extra dots over letters and the Polish letter that looks a bit like a t and is pronounced uw. If no one can find this name can someone point me in the direction of where I mind find it??? TIA Tania Zolkos [email protected]