Will give it a try but it will have to be tomorrow night as its WAY past my bedtime and my eyeballs are drooping. :-) Barbara roland elliott wrote: >Thank you,how about Mitchell,Sheardown,and then a mess of Dutch names? >----- Original Message ----- >From: "LaChance" <lachance@ccis.com> >To: <SURNAME-ORIGINS-L@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 22:26 >Subject: Re: [SURNAME-ORIGINS] >Elliott/Varley,Chapman,Stockton,shields,Chernay. > > > > >>ELLIOTT >>1. English: diminutive of ELLIS. >>2. English & Scot.: from a Middle English given name, " Elyat, Elyt". >>3. Scot.: Anglicized form of the Gaelic surname "ELLOCH, ELOTH", meaning >>someone who lived near a dam, mound, or bank. >> >>VARLEY ( English) of uncertain origin, probably a habitation name from >>"Verly" in Aisne, Picardy, so called from the Gallo-Roman personal name >>"Viriliou" + the local suffix "-acum". The surname is now most common >>in W. Yorkshire. >> >>CHAPMAN (English) a merchant or trader (from an Old English word meaning >>"barter, bargain, price, property" + "mann" man). >> >>STOCKTON (English) someone from any of the places, for example in >>Cheshire, County Durham, Hertsfordshire, Norfolk, Shropshire, >>Warwickshire, Wiltshire, Worcestershire, and N. and W. Yorkshire, so >>called from Old English "stocc" (tree trunk) or "stoc" (dependent >>settlement) + "tun" (settlement, enclosure). It is not possible to >>distinguish between the two first elements on the basis of early forms. >> >>SHIELDS >>1. English: an armourer. >>2. English: someone from places in Northumberland and County Durham (now >>both in Tyne and Wear) called respectively "N and S Shields", from a >>Middle English word meaning "shed, hut, shelter". Some examples of the >>name may be topographic, derived directly from the vocabulary word. >>3. English: someone who lived near the shallow part of a river. >>4. Irish: Anglicized form of "O'Siaghail, O'Siadhail" (descendant of >>"Siadhal"). >> >>CHERNAY - couldn't find this one as written. Did find two possibilities: >>\ CHERNEY, CHARNEY (Czech-Slav.) The dark complected man. >>\ CHENAY, CHENEY, CHENE (French) someone who lived near a conspicuous >>oak tree, or in an oak forest. The name may also have sometimes been a >>nickname for a man with a "heart of oak". >>---Source: A Dictionary of Surnames by Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges. >>Barbara >> >>roland elliott wrote: >> >> >> >>>I am interested in in the above ,Thank you. >>>Quidquid latine dictum sit,altum viditur. >>> >>> >>>============================== >>>To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, >>> >>> >go to: > > >>>http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >>============================== >>To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, >> >> >go to: > > >>http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >> >> >> >> > > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > >