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Surr Name Meaning
Possibly from Old French sor sieur the oblique case form of sire; see Syer.
Syer Name Meaning
English: from Middle English sire sier ‘master’ (Old French sire) hence a status name for the master of a household or group of apprentices or a nickname for an elderly man or perhaps a pompous or domineering person.
Source:
The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Burr, Suri, Kurr, Suhr, Furr, Sura, Sur, Serr, Spurr, Murr
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Tibbetts Name Meaning
English (Staffordshire): variant of Tebbutt with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
Tebbutt Name Meaning
English: from the Middle English female personal name Tebot a rhyming variant of Ebot itself a variant of Ibot a pet form of Isabel. See Isbell and Hibbitt and compare Tibbett . In some instances it may alternatively be an altered form of the Middle English surname Tebald Tebaut; see Theobald.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Tibbett, Tibbals, Tibbs, Sibbett, Betts, Gibbens, Tibbets, Ebberts
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Townsend Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone who lived at the extremity of a village from Middle English toun(es)ende. Compare Town . There may have been some confusion with Townson .
Townson Name Meaning
English (Lancashire and Yorkshire): north Lancashire pronunciation of Tomlinson . Compare Ronson for Rollinson . There may have been some confusion with Townsend which occurs in northwestern England and some instances of Townson are probably variants of Townsend .
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Towne, Townley, Towner, Downen, Towse, Townson, Townshend, Rowland
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Walton Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of numerous places called Walton which are named with Old English walh ‘foreigner Briton serf’ (genitive plural wala) wald ‘woodland’ wall ‘wall’ or wælla ‘well spring stream’ + tūn ‘farmstead estate’.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Wilton, Alton, Welton, Calton, Dalton, Salton, Halton, Watton
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Warrington Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Warrington in Lancashire. The placename probably derives from Old English wering wæring ‘dam’ (a derivative of wer wær ‘weir’) + tūn ‘farmstead estate’. There is also a place called Warrington in Buckinghamshire but it is unlikely to be the source of the surname.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Carrington, Harrington, Barrington, Farrington, Warmington
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Watmough Name Meaning
From the Middle English personal name Wat a pet form of Walter and Middle English maugh mough ‘kinsman by marriage brother-in-law son-in-law’. See Mowe (1) and compare Robert Waltersmaghe 1305 in Black. In origin it was mainly a Lancs surname that spread eastwards and southwards in post-medieval times. Redmonds Dictionary of Yorks Surnames notes that in 1634 Joshua Watmough of London granted land to a man from Bradford (WR Yorks) and was described as ‘a younger son of Hugh Watmough late of Bury’ (Lancs).
Source:
The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
Similar surnames:
Warmouth, Waugh, Stough, Tough, Weymouth, Warmuth, Garlough, Warmoth
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Wilkinson Name Meaning
English: patronymic (‘son of Wilkin’) from Wilkin . Compare Wilkerson .
Wilkin Name Meaning
English: from the Middle English personal name Wilkin a pet form of William introduced to England and Scotland by Flemings and Picards after the Norman Conquest. North German: variant of Wilken .
Wilkerson Name Meaning
English (East Anglia and South East Midlands): from Middle English Wilkeson a shortened form of Wilkinson ‘son of Wilkin or young William’. The -r- is intrusive.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Wilkins, Wilkerson, Wilkenson, Willison, Watkinson, Dickinson
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Habbishaw Name Meaning
Historically, surnames evolved as a way to sort people into groups - by occupation, place of origin, clan affiliation, patronage, parentage, adoption, and even physical characteristics (like red hair). Many of the modern surnames in the dictionary can be traced back to Britain and Ireland.
Similar surnames:
Habersham, Hanshaw, Harshaw, Robishaw, Henshaw, Bagshaw, Hoshaw
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts
The name Habbishaw is a "metonymic for a maker of habergeons, sleeveless coats or jackets of mail or scale armour, worn also as a rough garment for penance," derived from the Middle English or Old French word "haubergeon", a diminutive of hauberc.
Source:
A Dictionary of English Surnames - Reaney and Wilson - ISBN: 9780192806635

Woodford Name Meaning
English and Scottish: habitational name from any of various places called with Old English wudu ‘wood’ + ford ‘ford’ such as Woodford in Cheshire Cornwall Essex Northamptonshire and Wiltshire. In Scotland the name is derived from Woodford in Saint Boswells (Roxburghshire).
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Woodcock, Woodbury, Radford, Woodrow, Welford, Sandford, Winford
Findon Name Meaning
From Findern (Derbys) which is recorded as Findena in 1188 and Fyndren in 1330. occasionally from Findon (Sussex) which is recorded as Findune in 1086.
Source:
The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
Similar surnames:
Lindon, Finton, Windon, Linton, Hinton, Fenton, London, Linden
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts