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Marsland Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Marshlands in Saddleworth (Yorkshire). The placename derives from Old English mersc ‘marsh’ + land ‘land’.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2020
Similar surnames:
Marland, Markland, Mayland, Moreland, Darland, Hartland, Harland
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Ramsey Name Meaning
Scottish English and Irish (Antrim): habitational name from Ramsey (Huntingdonshire now part of Cambridgeshire) from Old English hramsa ‘wild garlic’ + ēg ‘island low-lying land’. Alternatively the name may also arise from Ramsey (Essex) probably from the same etymology as the Huntingdonshire placename. However this is unlikely to be the source of the Scottish surname. This form of the surname is also common in Ireland where it is probably in most if not all cases an altered form of Scottish Ramsay .
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Rumsey, Ramsden, Ramser, Ramsay, Rampey, Kimsey, Massey, Romney
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Yeoman Name Meaning
English and Scottish: status name from Middle English yoman yeman used of an attendant of relatively high status in a noble household ranking between a Sergeant and a Groom or between a Squire and a Page . The word probably originated as a shortened form of Middle English yonge man. Later in the Middle English period it came to be used of a modest independent freeholder and this latter sense may well lie behind some examples of the surname. In Scotland by the 16th century it had come to denote a landholder next in rank below a gentleman specifically one who owned land worth at least forty shillings a year.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Henman, German, Kelman, Oman, Derman, Edman, Hetman, Perman, Wehman
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Clements Name Meaning
English Irish (Tyrone and Antrim) and Dutch: variant of Clement with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. In North America this surname has absorbed cognates from other languages e.g. German Clementz and Slovenian patronymic Klemenc (see Klements ).
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Clement, Clemens, Clemmens, Clementson, Clemente, Mcclements, Clemons
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Crawford Name Meaning
Scottish and English: habitational name from any of various places called Crawford primarily the one in Lanarkshire (Scotland) and possibly also from the one in Lancashire. Both are named in Old English with crāwe ‘crow’ + ford ‘ford’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Cranford, Trafford, Radford, Bradford, Crafford, Branford, Alford
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Corbett Name Meaning
English (West Midlands of Norman origin): nickname from Old French corbet ‘raven’ probably denoting someone with dark hair or a dark complexion.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Cobbett, Corbell, Herbert, Dorsett, Corlett, Torbett, Cockett
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Place Name Meaning
English and French: topographic name for someone who lived in the main market square of a town or village from Middle English Old French place (from Late Latin platea (via) ‘broad street free public open space in a town’). Compare French Laplace . English: topographic name for someone who lived near a quickset fence from Middle English pleis (from Latin plexum past participle of plectere ‘to plait or weave’). French (Placé): habitational name from a place so named in Mayenne.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Plate, Pace, Lake, Lace, Plack, Clare, Pape, Slack, Pesce, Page
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Knox Name Meaning
Scottish and English (Northumberland and Durham): from a genitive or plural form of Old English cnocc ‘round-topped hill’ hence a topographic name for someone who lived on a hilltop or a habitational name from any of the places in Scotland and northern England named with this element now spelled Knock in particular one in Renfrewshire. Scottish: habitational name from any of the places in Scotland named with Gaelic cnoc ‘hill’ for example Knock in Renfrewshire. It is not possibly to disentangle this from the surname derived from the English etymon mentioned in 1 above. Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) surnames.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Knock, Knop, Ko, Knee, Noy, Kos, Krol, Kwon, Noe, Krog
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Baroni Name Meaning
Italian: patronymic or plural form of Barone.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Barone, Varone, Maroni, Carboni, Carosi, Sarni, Bartoli, Baldoni
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Hinchliffe Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire): habitational name from a place in Holmfirth (Yorkshire) from Old English henge ‘steep’ + clif ‘cliff’.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Hinchley Name Meaning
Variant of Hinchcliffe with development of -cliff via -liff to -ley
Source:
The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
Similar surnames:
Hinchcliffe, Hinchcliff, Ratcliffe, Radcliffe, Sutcliffe, Cliffe
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts