Hello all, I have these names in my family, all from Yorkshire, and am wondering about their origins and meanings. I have heard that MEDFORTH is a name peculiar to the East Yorkshire area near Hull, Patrington, and Easington on the North Sea. Any validity that the name originated there? And what of BEANLAND and WAITES? I would love to know more about the names or find some sites that can give me information. Thank you in advance for any help. Brigitte Begue Hartke In Yorkshire, England: CARRICK - Easington, Aldbrough, East Riding (may have been CARROTT in 1600s) CASTLE - Owthorne, East Riding MEDFORTH - Kilnsea STAPLES - Out Newton, Easington BRIDE - Kilnsea BARNES - Kilnsea FRANCIS - Easington BRANTON, Isabell - 1715 Easington area - a mystery HARRISON, Charlotte - (1779) another mysteryfather was possibly Charles Harrison of Kilnsea WEBSTER - back to 1702 Easington FOSTER - late 1600s Easington ROBINSON - Bridlington WAITES - Bridlington BEANLAND - Morecambe, Lancashire In France: BEGUE - Toulouse, France QUIRIN - Alsace-Lorraine, France STROHL - Alsace Lorraine, France LE GALL - Brittany, France Every time an old one dies, a library burns to the ground. Old African saying "A man must keep his mouth open a long time before a roast pigeon flies into it."

BEANLAND (English [Yorkshire]) someone from an unidentified place named as the place where beans were grown, from Old English "bean" + "land", both of which are common formative elements in English placenames. WAITE (English) a watchman, from an Anglo-Norman-French word "waite" (of Gemanic origin), or from the same word in its original sense, "the watch". ---Source: A Dictionary of Surnames by Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges. MEDFORTH - couldn't find as given but did find: \ MEDFORD (English) One who came from Meaford (ford at the junction of streams), in Staffordshire. (I looked in 9 different surname books for this one and couldn't find it, as given, in any.) ---Source: New Dictionary of American Family Names by Elsdon C. Smith. Barbara BrigitteBH@aol.com wrote: > Hello all, > > I have these names in my family, all from Yorkshire, and am wondering about > their origins and meanings. I have heard that MEDFORTH is a name peculiar to > the East Yorkshire area near Hull, Patrington, and Easington on the North > Sea. Any validity that the name originated there? And what of BEANLAND and > WAITES? I would love to know more about the names or find some sites that > can give me information. Thank you in advance for any help. > > Brigitte Begue Hartke > > In Yorkshire, England: > > CARRICK - Easington, Aldbrough, East Riding (may have been CARROTT in 1600s) > CASTLE - Owthorne, East Riding > MEDFORTH - Kilnsea > STAPLES - Out Newton, Easington > BRIDE - Kilnsea > BARNES - Kilnsea > FRANCIS - Easington > BRANTON, Isabell - 1715 Easington area - a mystery > HARRISON, Charlotte - (1779) another mysteryfather was possibly Charles > Harrison of Kilnsea > WEBSTER - back to 1702 Easington > FOSTER - late 1600s Easington > ROBINSON - Bridlington > WAITES - Bridlington > BEANLAND - Morecambe, Lancashire > > In France: > > BEGUE - Toulouse, France > QUIRIN - Alsace-Lorraine, France > STROHL - Alsace Lorraine, France > LE GALL - Brittany, France > > Every time an old one dies, a library burns to the ground. Old African > saying > "A man must keep his mouth open a long time before a roast pigeon flies into > it." > > ============================== > 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