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Greaves Name Meaning
English:: topographic name from Old English grǣfe ‘brushwood thicket’ or a habitational name from any of the places called with this word. In Yorkshire the name comes from The Greaves in Beeley (Derbyshire) now known as Beeley Hilltop. In Lancashire the name may instead derive from a locality called Greaves in Preston. alternatively it may be a variant of Greve with post-medieval excrescent -s or of Graves or Grieves .
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Grave, Graves, Graven, Grapes, Graver, Reeves, Draves, Gleave, Greven
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Dibb Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire):: topographic name for someone who lived ‘by the hollow’ from dib a northern dialect form of dip. from the personal name Dibb a pet form of Theobald ; compare Dibble .
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Gibb, Dick, Babb, Dube, Tabb, Bibb, Dobb, Duby, Dial, Dub
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Linfoot Name Meaning
See Linthwaite .
Linthwaite Name Meaning
From Linthwaite in Almondbury (WR Yorks) locally pronounced /'linfit/. The place-name is recorded as Lindthait and Lynthwait in medieval documents and derives from Old English līn ‘flax’ or lind ‘lime tree’ + Old Scandinavian þveit ‘clearing meadow’.
Source:
The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
Similar surnames:
Linford, Linwood, Linton, Winford, Lincoln, Crofoot, Lipford, Sinnott
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Malthouse Name Meaning
From Middle English malt-hous ‘malt-house building in which malt is made or stored’ (Old English malt-hūs) for someone who lived at a malt-house or for someone who worked at one.
Source:
The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
Similar surnames:
Althouse, Millhouse, Bolthouse, Milhouse, Holthouse, Outhouse
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Milner Name Meaning
English (northern especially Yorkshire): variant of Miller retaining the -n- of the Middle English word milnere ‘miller’. German: variant of Müller (see Mueller ).
Miller Name Meaning
English and Scottish: occupational name for a miller. The standard modern vocabulary word represents the northern Middle English term miller an agent derivative of mille ‘mill’ reinforced by Old Norse mylnari (see Milner ). In southern western and central England Millward (literally ‘mill keeper’) was the usual term. In North America the surname Miller has absorbed many cognate surnames from other languages for example German Müller (see Mueller ) Dutch Mulder and Molenaar French Meunier Italian Molinaro Spanish Molinero Hungarian Molnár (see Molnar ) Slovenian Croatian and Serbian Mlinar Polish Młynarz or Młynarczyk (see Mlynarczyk ). Miller (including in the senses below) is the seventh most frequent surname in the US. South German Swiss German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Müller ‘miller’ (see Mueller ) and in North America also an altered form of this. This form of the surname is also found in other European countries notably in Poland Denmark France (mainly Alsace and Lorraine) and Czechia; compare 3 below. Americanized form of Polish Czech Croatian Serbian and Slovenian Miler ‘miller’ a surname of German origin.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Miller, Miner, Milne, Millner, Kilner, Minner, Milnes, Milnor, Tinner
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Jowett Name Meaning
English: variant of Jewett .
Jowitt Name Meaning
See Jowett .
Jewett Name Meaning
English (northern): from the Middle English female personal name Jouet Jouot Juet. This was an Anglo-Norman French pronunciation of the Biblical name Judith and also a pet form (with the Anglo-Norman French suffix -et(te)) of both Judith and the much commoner female name Julian (from Latin Juliana a derivative of Julius). See Jew and Julian . Americanized form of French Jouet or Jouët (see Jouett ) and possibly also of some other similar (like-sounding) French surname.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Jouett, Rowett, Howett, Juett, Jewitt, Lovett, Howitt, Howeth
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Knightson Name Meaning
‘Son of the knight’ or possibly from the uncommon Middle English personal name Knight + -son.
Knight Name Meaning
English: status or occupational name from Middle English knight ‘retainer attendant’ (Old English cniht ‘boy youth lad)’. The specialized feudal sense ‘a high-ranking tenant bound to serve his lord as a mounted soldier’ is not known to have ever given rise to the surname although it is not out of the question that it may occasionally have been used as a nickname perhaps for someone who played the part of an armed knight in a local pageant. Irish: sometimes adopted for Gaelic Mac an Ridire ‘son of the knight’. See also McKnight .
Source:
The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Knighton, Knights, Knighten, Wrightson, Knight, Heighton, Brighton
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Moorhouse Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): variant of Morehouse .
Morehouse Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire): habitational name from any of the many places called Moorhouse in Yorkshire or Durham (from Old English mōr ‘moor’ + hūs ‘house’). In some cases the surname may have become Morris . This name is also established in Ireland.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Moorehouse, Morehouse, Milhouse, Woodhouse, Crouse, Milhous
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Outhwaite Name Meaning
Probably from Ullthwaite near Staveley (Westm) rather than from Outhwaite (Lancs). In support of this interpretation Redmonds Dictionary of Yorks Surnames cites John Ultwayte or Owlthwayt 1470–2 in Ripon Memorials. Ullthwaite is recorded as Ulvethwayt in 1301; the place-name derives from Old Scandinavian úlfr ‘wolf’ + þveit ‘clearing meadow’.
Source:
The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
Similar surnames:
Southgate, Thwaites, Goldthwaite, Outwater, Garthwaite, Crosthwaite
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Amy Woodforde-Finden : re-enactment of her memorial unveiling
A wreath was laid on the white marble recumbent figure of Amy to mark the centenary of its unveiling in April 15th 1923.