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Vint Name Meaning
English and Scottish: variant of Went .
Went Name Meaning
Danish and German: variant of Wente . English: topographic name from Middle English went(e) ‘passage path way’. English: perhaps occasionally from the river Went (Yorkshire). The river name may mean ‘the pleasant stream’ from Proto-Welsh wĭnet or wĭnēd.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Wint, Vitt, Vine, Ping, Lint, Vina, Vento, Hino, Vink, Want
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Joshua Tetley was the founder of Tetley’s Brewery in Leeds, and he retired with his wife Hannah to Hollins Hall on the outskirts of Hampsthwaite (Hollins Hall Retirement Village).

Peck Name Meaning
English: variant of Speake with loss of initial S- (or perhaps vice versa). English: variant of Peak . English: perhaps occasionally a variant of Petch itself a variant of Peach . Irish: variant of Peak 6. South German: variant of Beck . It is also found in Poland (compare Pek ). North German and Dutch: metonymic occupational name for someone who prepared or sold pitch from Middle Low German pek Middle Dutch pec pic.7: Americanized or Germanized form of Hungarian Pék Croatian and Slovenian Pek 1 ‘baker’.8: Americanized form of Czech or Polish Pek
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Pick, Beck, Peek, Pech, Puck, Heck, Speck, Pack, Seck, Peak
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Goodall Name Meaning
English (mainly Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire):: metonymic occupational name from Middle English god(e) ‘good’ + ale ‘ale’; perhaps denoting an innkeeper or tan ale taster. An ale taster was a manorial or borough court official appointed to regulate the quality of ale sold by inns and alewives especially with the duty of preventing the sale of sour or watered-down ale. alternatively it may be a habitational name from Gowdall near Snaith in Yorkshire. This place was named in Old English with golde ‘marigold’ + halh ‘nook recess’.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Woodall, Foxall, Gornall, Dowdall, Good, Gorrell, Goodsell, Goodwill
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Ridsdale Name Meaning
Probably from Redesdale rather than from Ridsdale (both Northumb). Redesdale is recorded as Redesdale in 1075 and Riddesdale in 1203 and derives from the river-name Rede (genitive Redes itself from Old English rēad ‘red’) + Old Scandinavian dalr ‘valley’.
Source:
The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
Similar surnames:
Dinsdale, Ragsdale, Dimsdale, Riddle, Hinsdale, Tisdale, Riddell
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Bolton Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of numerous places in northern England named Bolton (Lancashire Northumberland Westmorland and Yorkshire) or from Boulton in Derbyshire and East Lothian in Scotland from Old English bothl ‘dwelling house’ (see Bold ) + tūn ‘enclosure settlement’.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Colton, Holton, Bilton, Tolton, Belton, Booton, Banton, Milton
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Bingley Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Bingley in Yorkshire recorded in Domesday Book as Bingelei from the Old English personal name Bynna + -inga ‘of the people of’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’ or alternatively Old English bing ‘hollow’ + -inga + lēah.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Dingley, Tingley, Lindley, Bickley, Kinsley, Brinkley, Binkley, Ingle
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Arnold Name Meaning
English Scottish German Dutch French (mainly Alsace and Lorraine) Hungarian Czech Slovak Polish Croatian and Slovenian: from the ancient Germanic personal name Arnwald (Middle English Arnold Old French Arnaut) composed of the elements arn ‘eagle’ + wald ‘rule power’. This name was introduced to Britain by the Normans. English: habitational name from either of two places called Arnold in Nottinghamshire and East Yorkshire from Old English earn ‘eagle’ + halh ‘nook’. Jewish (Ashkenazic): adoption of the German personal name (see 1 above) at least in part on account of its resemblance to the Jewish name Aaron .
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Barran Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire): possibly a nickname from Middle English bar(r)ain bar(r)en baran ‘barren’ (Old French barain baraigne). As a hereditary surname the sense ‘destitute poor worthless’ seems more likely than ‘sterile childless’. Galician (Barrán): habitational name from any of the three places so called in Ourense province (Galicia Spain). This surname is also found in Biscay (Basque Country). Americanized form of Polish Czech or other Slavic Baran .
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Barra, Barron, Baran, Farran, Barras, Barman, Barkan, Parran, Barrand
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Bowers Name Meaning
The surname Bowers is of Saxon origin, derived from the word 'bur' meaning 'a chamber; a cottage; a shady recess'. Adding 'er' to the end of topographical terms was common in south east England. An alternative origin is "a maker of bows".
Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowers_(surname)
Similar surnames:
Bowens, Boyers, Powers, Mowers, Dowers, Bower, Boyer, Bowdry, Fowers