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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.

Andrew Name Meaning
English and Scottish: from the usual vernacular English form (recorded from the 13th century onward) of the New Testament Greek personal name Andreas . In North America the English form of the surname has absorbed many cognates from other languages e.g. Czech Ondřej (see Ondrey ) and Albanian Ndreu and also their patronymics and other derivatives (see examples at Andrews ).
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Andrews, Andre, Andres, Andreas, Andreu, Andrea, Drew, Andros, Andren
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Barton Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of numerous places called with Old English bere or bær ‘barley’ + tūn ‘enclosure settlement’ i.e. an outlying grange. Compare Barwick . The name is also found in Ireland where it has been Gaelicized as de Bartún. Polish (Bartoń); Czech and Slovak (mainly Bartoň): from a pet form of the personal name Polish Bartłomiej Czech Bartoloměj Slovak Bartolomej from Latin Bartholomaeus (see Bartholomew ). This surname is also found in Germany.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Marton, Harton, Burton, Baron, Bardon, Baston, Parton, Banton, Bartos
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Carrington Name Meaning
English: habitational name from a place in Greater Manchester (formerly in Cheshire) called Carrington probably named with an unattested Old English personal name Cāra + -ing- denoting association + tūn ‘settlement’. Scottish: habitational name from a place in Midlothian named Carrington probably from Old English Cēriheringa-tūn ‘settlement of Cērihere's people’.
Source
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Warrington, Barrington, Harrington, Farrington, Arrington
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Davey Name Meaning
English: from the personal name Davy originally an Old French vernacular form of the Biblical name David which became the most common form of the name in medieval England.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Davy, Havey, Davee, Eavey, Avey, Dovey, Daley, Dazey, Daves, Lavey
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts