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Thorpe Name Meaning
English (mainly Yorkshire and Lancashire): from Middle English thorp(e) ‘village hamlet farmstead’ (Old Norse Old English thorp ‘secondary settlement’). The surname may be topographic for someone who lived in such a settlement or habitational for someone from any of several places called Thorp(e) which are most frequent in Yorkshire the Midlands and East Anglia. Compare Throop .
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Thorn, Hope, Torp, Thorley, Shore, Thor, Thore, Torre, Horne, Thorup
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Travers Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin): variant of Travis 1 and a cognate of 3 below or a variant of Trevors itself a variant of Trevor . Irish (Leitrim and Donegal; of Anglo-Norman origin): variant of Trower . French: topographic name for someone who lived at a crossing place Old French travers or a habitational name from (Le) Travers the name of several places in various parts of France named with this word.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Travis, Rivers, Graver, Trover, Traver, Graves, Beaver, Trevor
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Vasey Name Meaning
English (Durham and North Yorkshire): variant of Veazey .
Veazey Name Meaning
English (Rutland): nickname from Anglo-Norman French enveisé ‘playful’ (Old French envoisié) Latinized as invesiatus (compare medieval Latin invasus ‘possessed by a demon’) and paralleled by lascivus ‘wanton’. The first syllable was lost early resulting in numerous dialectal and orthographic variants; only Lenfestey preserves the fuller form with an intrusive medial -t-. There has also been some confusion with Vessey .
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Vesey, Veasey, Basey, Maxey, Vassey, Havey, Vasser, Vasel, Rasey
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Vause Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire and Lancashire):: of Norman origin a habitational name from Vaux (see Vaux ) a common French placename singular and plural of val ‘valley’ the plural form being Latinized in surnames as de Vallibus. Norman lords with this surname are recorded in 12th- and early 13th-century records in Cumberland (Irthington) Devon (Farwood in Colyton) East Yorkshire (Warter) Essex (Belchamp) and Leicestershire (Belvoir). Compare Vale . nickname perhaps from Middle English fals faus vaus (Old French fals faus Old English fals) ‘deceitful disloyal dishonest mendacious’ but it is more likely the name arises from 1 with the common Anglo-Norman French substitution of le for de in their surname.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Sause, Halse, Gause, Hase, Paule, Aube, Causey, Baust, Rouse, Sasse
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Willis Name Meaning
English:: variant of Will with genitival -s. This surname represents a retention of the second syllable introduced by the addition of the Middle English genitival suffix -es which would have been pronounced in the Middle English period. Compare Wills . In some cases the name is a variant of Willey with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. variant of Willows .
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Willits, Wills, Tillis, Lillis, Millis, Willms, Willison, Wilkes
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

SCRUBBERS & STONES - Sat 29th June 10.30am - 2.30pm - Entry FREE!

• Explore the Memorials at St Thomas a'Becket
• Memorials Treasure Trail - for children if all ages
• Self-Service / Self-Checkout BBQ from 12 noon (inc. veg option) Food £2, Drink £1, Donations? - yes please!
• Hot & Cold Drinks
• Laptop & Screen to show Mapping Hampsthwaite’s Past
• Use a Bucket & Brush to help reveal Inscriptions on the older memorials
• . . . or just Sit & Enjoy CORPUS CHRISTI BRASS BAND . . . from 11.30am
• . . . followed by Afternoon Tea & Cakes at the Memorial Hall!

Woodroffe Name Meaning
See Woodruff .
Woodruff Name Meaning
English: from Middle English woderove ‘woodruff sweet woodruff’ (Old English wudurofe) a sweet-scented plant. The leaves of the plant have a sweet smell and the surname may also have been a nickname for one who used it as a perfume or perhaps an ironical nickname for a malodorous person. Alternatively perhaps a topographic name for someone who lived at or near a place where woodruff grew. There may have been some confusion with Woodrow .
Source:
The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Woodruff, Woodroof, Woodrome, Woodrow, Woodhouse, Woodliff, Goodroe
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Wooler Name Meaning
See Wooller .
Wooller Name Meaning
From Wooler (Northumb) which is recorded as Wullovre in 1186 and Welloure in 120 The place-name probably derives from Old English wella ‘well spring stream’ + ofer ‘slope hill ridge’. sometimes a derivative of Middle English woll wull ‘wool’ (Old English wull) for a wool dealer or someone who worked with wool. Compare Thomas le Wollestere 1297 in Wakefield Court Rolls (WR Yorks). Some of the bearers below may belong with (1).
Source:
The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
Similar surnames:
Woomer, Woller, Woolen, Pooler, Wohler, Cooler, Woolery, Wooley
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Ashton Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of numerous places so called especially Ashton-under-Lyne near Manchester. Most are named from Old English æsc ‘ash tree’ + tūn ‘settlement’; the one in Northamptonshire is (æt thǣm) æscum ‘(at the) ash trees’. Others have been assimilated to this from different sources. The one in Devon is ‘the settlement (tūn) of Æschere’ while the one in Hertfordshire is ‘the settlement of Ælli’.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Aston, Easton, Alton, Aiton, Ashdown, Alston, Hinton, Abston, Acton
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Craven Name Meaning
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Crabháin (County Galway) or Mac Crabháin (Louth County Monaghan) ‘descendant (or ‘son’) of Crabhán’. English (northern): habitational name from the district of Craven in Yorkshire which is probably ‘garlic place’ from a British word the ancestor of Welsh craf ‘garlic’.
Source
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Mccraven, Heaven, Braden, Cave, Raven, Cavan, Graven, Cavey, Craney
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts