Can't find the other two as given but did find: ISHII (Japanese) Stone, well. Source: New Dictionary of American Family Names by E.C. Smith Also found: \ NIX (German) Patronym of NI(C)K(O)LAUS, cognate of the English and Welsh form (NICHOLAS), from the given name. The name was popular among Christians throughout Europe in the Middle Ages. The name apparently originates from the Greek "Nikolaos", from 'nikan' (to conquer) + 'laos' (people). Source: A Dictionary of Surnames by Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges Barbara Highly Unlikely wrote: > Hi all, > > I am new to this list and and have been stumped as to the origins of the > surnames Erdelyan, Ishee and Nix. I lean toward a German ethnicity for Nix > but the other two are a complete mystery. Any help would be much > appreciated! > > Thanks, > > highly-unlikely > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com > > ============================== > Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist2.asp > Search over 2500 databases with one easy query!

Hi all, I am new to this list and and have been stumped as to the origins of the surnames Erdelyan, Ishee and Nix. I lean toward a German ethnicity for Nix but the other two are a complete mystery. Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks, highly-unlikely _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

STRICKETT - couldn't find the name as given but did find: \ STRICK (German) One who made cord or rope. Since "-ett" is often a pet form of the original name, that may be the case here. Source: New Dictionary of American Family Names by E.C. Smith Barbara Leith Friend wrote: > Why would the baptism have had to be before 1300 if it was English? > > Also could you tell me the origins of the name STRICKETT ? > > Regards > > Leith Friend > Hamilton New Zealand > > Looking for these Families: > COCKS, COLE, FRANKLIN, NEALE, PRITCHARD, SMITH (Glos.) > BUGGY (Middlesex) EARLY (Acton, Kent) PITT (Ombersley Worcs) > CLARK(E) Captain Edwin/Edward? (Scotland) CONNOR Ann (Co. Cork) > OGLE, ROGERS (Co Armagh & Albury NSW) > DONALDSON, METGE, PORTER, WALLACE (Ireland & NSW) > CLEGG, EARLY, FRIEND, GILLING, JONATHAN, SIMMONDS, STEPHENS, STEVENS, > STEWART, THOMAS (NZ) > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 8:28 AM > Subject: Re: [SURNAME-ORIGINS] Re: Surname STEVANUS > > > STEVANUS - Priests used to baptize babies with a Latinization of > > their names. So Stevan became Stevanus and that eventually became > > the family surname. If it's English, the baptism must have taken place > > before 1300. > > > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > ============================== > Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp

STEVANUS - Priests used to baptize babies with a Latinization of their names. So Stevan became Stevanus and that eventually became the family surname. If it's English, the baptism must have taken place before 1300. There may be other explanations for the name but I can't think of any. Gary Radcliffe [email protected]

Does anyone know the origin and meaning of NEDELKOV? Thank you, Holly

STEVANUS Could not find that name as given, but strongly suspect it to be one of the many forms of STEPHEN. It looks, with the -us- ending, to have a Latin connection . There is a Greek form (STEPHANOS) meaning "Crown". The name was popular throughout Christendom in the Middle Ages, having been borne by the first Christian martyr. Source: Dictionary of Surnames by Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges. Barbara "Janet A. Nelson" wrote: > Hello: > > Would someone please tell me the origin of the surname "STEVANUS"? Thank > you in advance. > > Regards, > Janet A. Nelson > [email protected] > > ============================== > Shop Ancestry - Everything you need to Discover, Preserve & Celebrate > your heritage! > http://shop.myfamily.com/ancestrycatalog

Hello: Would someone please tell me the origin of the surname "STEVANUS"? Thank you in advance. Regards, Janet A. Nelson [email protected]

Hi: Can someone please tell me the origin of the surname "MELODAR"? I just found out that it is the maiden name of my great-great grandmother; Sarah MELODAR, born in 1810 somewhere in Pennsylvania. Thanks for your time and your help. Regards, Janet A. Nelson [email protected]

TASSE (French) Metronymic occupational name for a maker or seller of purses and bags, or nickname for a rich man or miser, from Old French 'tasse' purse (apparently of Arabic origin). A metronymic name is one derived from the name of the first bearer's mother. Metronymic names are not at all common and very few exist today. Source: A Dictionary of Surnames by Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges. Barbara [email protected] wrote: > Hi, > I'm looking for the meaning of the Tasse surname. Thanks > Brandy > > ============================== > Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. > http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com

Hi, I'm looking for the meaning of the Tasse surname. Thanks Brandy

I found a document that gives my gg-grandfather's name as Veyock. His son Jacob was born in Froschen, Thaleischweiler, Germany. 1741. Evidently, he changed the name after moving to Pennsylvania. Possibly got tired of it being misspelled? LOL! Does anyone have any info on Veyock? Thanks, Sandy

Hello Barbara, Thanks a lot for the information. Patricia Pulles > ATTACHMENT part 2 message/rfc822 > Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 15:24:21 -0800 > From: LaChance <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [SURNAME-ORIGINS] Fiennes > > FIENNES (English [Norman]) Habitation name from a place in > Pas-de-Calais, recorded in the 11th century as 'Filnes' and 'Finles'. > The earliest form of all is 'Flidmum' (9th century), possibly akin to a > Germanic word meaning 'plain'. The surname is normally pronounce > 'faInz'. > Source: A Dictionary of Surnames by Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges. > Barbara > > "Patricia A. Pull�s" wrote: > > > Do you have any information on the origin and meaning of the surname > > Fiennes? > > Thank you, > > Patricia Pulles __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

Thank you for the information.

I am searching for any info on the origins of the surname Nye.  My ancestry includes Amariah F. Nye born in Ada, Hardin County, Ohio on 11/24/1850.  He married Sarah Ann (Anna) Cunningham (Born 9/19/1856).   They had three children:       George E Nye. Born 6/27/1874  died 10/17/1942  buried Forest Hills Cemetary,     Chattanooga, Tn.       Mabel Alma Nye. Born 11/1/1878  died 1/5/1978 buried Forest Hills Cemetary             Married James William Elder. No children.       Sylvia Vivian Nye. (my Great-grandmother) Born 9/28/1882 died 12/15/1969             buried Forest Hills Cemetary.                   Married Clifford George Hatch.  One son: JAmes Clyde Hatch Any information you have on the origins of this surname will be greatly appreciated.  I am hitting a brick wall with the Nye side of the family. Thanks again, Donna Hatch Smith

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That's all right ... appreciate all the tid bits! Shannon McQuaid Courtney _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

NYE (English) topographic name arising from a misdivision of Middle English "atten (e)ye" which means both 'at the river' and 'at the island', from Old English 'ea' river and 'eg' island respectively. (Both have a straight line over the -e-.) Both these words were actually feminine in Old English, and so should have been preceded only Middle English 'atter', but distinctions of gender ceased to be carefully maintained in the Middle English period. Variations: NIE, NEY, NAY. Source: Dictionary of Surnames by Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges. Barbara [email protected] wrote: > I am searching for any info on the origins of the surname Nye. My ancestry > includes Amariah F. Nye born in Ada, Hardin County, Ohio on 11/24/1850. He > married Sarah Ann (Anna) Cunningham (Born 9/19/1856). > > They had three children: > George E Nye. Born 6/27/1874 died 10/17/1942 buried Forest Hills > Cemetary, Chattanooga, Tn. > > Mabel Alma Nye. Born 11/1/1878 died 1/5/1978 buried Forest Hills > Cemetary > Married James William Elder. No children. > > Sylvia Vivian Nye. (my Great-grandmother) Born 9/28/1882 died 12/15/1969 > buried Forest Hills Cemetary. > Married Clifford George Hatch. One son: JAmes Clyde Hatch > > Any information you have on the origins of this surname will be greatly > appreciated. I am hitting a brick wall with the Nye side of the family. > > Thanks again, > Donna Hatch Smith > > ============================== > Shop Ancestry - Everything you need to Discover, Preserve & Celebrate > your heritage! > http://shop.myfamily.com/ancestrycatalog

KAMPH - found: \KAMPF (German) Form of the English "KEMP", an occupational name for a champion at jousting or wrestling, from the Middle English "kempe", from the Old English "cempa", meaning warrior, champion, from "camp", meaning battle, which in turn came from the Latin "campus", meaning plain, field (of battle). Source: Dictionary of Surnames by Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges. Barbara [email protected] wrote: > May request a look up for the origin and meaning of the name KAMPH please? > > > Thank You, > Pat > > ============================== > The easiest way to stay in touch with your family and friends! > http://www.myfamily.com/banner.asp?ID=RWLIST1

MCQUAID (Irish) Anglicized form of the Gaelic "Mac Uaid", patronym from a Gaelic form of the given name "Wat". Source: Dictionary of Surnames by Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges. also: MCQUAID, MCQUADE, MCQUAIDE (Irish) The son of Wat, a pet form of Walter (rule, army). Source: New Dictionary of American Family Names by E.C. Smith Barbara Shannon wrote: > I have spent several hours searching the web in hopes of finding someone who could share with me what the MCQUAID name originates... if there is a coat of arms and if there is a heraldy. I have found generalized information but nothing specific and there are so many sites with for purchase... I want to see what the heraldy or coat of arms would look like. > > I know this much... taken from a Dictionarly of names that my cousin owns... do not know the name of the resource. > (first is the Gaelic version - but I don't have keyboard with the Gaelic Lettering) > McQuaid pronounced Mac oo-idj- comes from Mac Uaid ( also M'Coode, M'Cowade, M'Quoid, MacQuaid, MacQuaide, MacQuade, MacQuoid, MacWade, Quaid, Quaide, Quade, Quoid, ect; ' son of Wat (?) ( a 'pet' form of Walter); a well-known Monaghan surname. > > ============================== > 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

The MacQuaid origin and meaning I sent to the list was originally MacQuoid (son of the the fair-haired one). It is Scottish and the Irish meaning may be different. I don't know know if they are different. Gary Radcliffe