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North German
North German : topographic name for someone who lived among birch trees, from a derivative of Middle Low German berke ‘birch’.Hungarian : from a pet form of the ecclesiastical names Bernát, Hungarian form of Bernhard, or Bertalan, Hungarian form of Bartholomew.English : variant spelling of Birks (see Birch).
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English : habitational name from Hensall in North Yorkshire, originally named with the unattested Old English personal name Heþīn or Old Scandinavian Heþinn + Old English halh ‘nook’.English : Huguenot surname, of unexplained origin, which was taken to England by a Protestant refugee who fled France after the Massacre of St. Bartholomew’s Day (24 August 1572) and settled in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
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English : habitational name from any of the numerous places named with Old English bere or bær ‘barley’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’, i.e. an outlying grange. Compare Barwick.German and central European (e.g. Czech and Slovak Bartoň) : from a pet form of the personal name Bartolomaeus (see Bartholomew).
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English
English : patronymic or metronymic from the medieval personal name Bett, a short form of Bartholomew, Beatrice, or Elizabeth.
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North German
North German : from a short form of the personal name Bartholomäus (see Bartholomew).English : habitational name from Meaux (pronounced ‘Myoos’) in Humberside, formerly in East Yorkshire. This was named in Old Norse as ‘sandbank pool’, from melr ‘sandbank’, ‘sandhill’ + sær ‘sea’, ‘lake’, and subsequently assimilated by folk etymology to a French place name.
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English
English : from a medieval personal name, Latin Bart(h)olomaeus, from the Aramaic patronymic bar-Talmay ‘son of Talmay’, meaning ‘having many furrows’, i.e. rich in land. This was an extremely popular personal name in Christian Europe, with innumerable vernacular derivatives. It derived its popularity from the apostle St. Bartholomew (Matthew 10:3), the patron saint of tanners, vintners, and butlers. As an Irish name, it has been used as an Americanized form of Mac Pharthaláin (see McFarlane).
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Czech and Slovak (Dobrý)
Czech and Slovak (Dobrý) : nickname from Czech dobrý ‘good’, ‘honest’, ‘faithful’.French : patronymic from the personal name Obry, a spelling variant of Aubrey.English : altered form of the French surname Dobrée, which was taken to England by a Huguenot family whose ancestor had fled to Guernsey after the St. Bartholomew Massacre in 1572.
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English
English : like Bate, a derivative of the Middle English personal name Batte, a pet form of Bartholomew.English : possibly from a Middle English survival of an Old English personal name or byname Bata, of uncertain origin and meaning, but perhaps akin to batt ‘cudgel’ and so, as a byname, given to a thickset man or a belligerent one.English : topographic name, of uncertain meaning. That it is a topographic name seems clear from examples such as Walter atte Batte (Somerset 1327), but the meaning of the term is in doubt although it is found in medieval field names.German : from a medieval personal name (Latin Beatus ‘Blessed’), bestowed in honor of the apostle who was reputed to have brought Christianity to Switzerland and southern Germany.
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English form of French Bartholomieu, BARTHOLOMEW means "son of Talmai." In the New Testament bible, this is the name of one of the twelve apostles.
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English
English : patronymic or metronymic from the medieval personal name Bett, a short form of Bartholomew, Beatrice, or Elizabeth.Americanized spelling of German Betz.
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English
English : patronymic from Bate (see Bartholomew).Americanized form of German Betz. See also Betts.
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English (mainly Northumberland)
English (mainly Northumberland) : from a pet form of Bartholomew.
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English
English : variant of Telfer.Americanized form of the Italian family name Taliaferro (cognate with 1), from tagliare ‘to cut’ + ferro ‘iron’, probably applied as a nickname for a metal worker or a fierce fighter (see genealogical note).The Virginia family of Taliaferro (pronounced Tolliver) are descended from London-born Robert Taliaferro or Tolliver, who settled in VA by 1647. He was the grandson of a Venetian, Bartholomew Taliaferro, who had settled in London by 1562. Between 1651 and 1673 Robert patented several sizeable holdings in Gloucester Co., England. He married Sarah Grimes, the daughter of an Anglican priest, and had one daughter and four sons, all of whom produced large and prosperous families.
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English
English : from the Middle English personal name Toll, Old English Toll, or Old Norse Tóli, the latter being derived from a reduced form of a compound name such as þórleifr (composed of the elements þórr, name of the Scandinavian god of thunder (see Thor) + leifr ‘relic’) or þórleikr (composed of the elements þórr + leikr ‘sport’, ‘play’).English : topographic name from toll ‘clump of trees’, a dialect term of Kent, Sussex, and Hampshire.German : nickname from Middle High German tol, dol ‘foolish’, also ‘pretty’ or ‘handsome’.German : from a reduced form of the personal name Bartholomäus (see Bartholomew).
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English
English : from a medieval pet form of Bartholomew.
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English and Scottish
English and Scottish : from the Middle English personal name Bat(t)e, a pet form of Bartholomew.
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English, Scottish, and North German (also Töller)
English, Scottish, and North German (also Töller) : occupational name for a toll taker or tax collector, from an agent derivative of Middle English toll ‘tax’, ‘payment’, Middle Low German toll (from Late Latin toloneum, teloneum, a derivative of Greek telos ‘tax’).English : habitational name from Toller in Dorset, named from a British river name, apparently composed of elements akin to Welsh toll ‘hollow’, ‘pierced’ + dw(f)r ‘stream’.German : from a short form of the personal name Bartholomäus (see Bartholomew).German : nickname meaning ‘foolish one’ or ‘handsome one’; a noun derivative of Toll 3.
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English
English : from the Middle English personal name Bartlet, a pet form of Bartholomew.This is the name of a well-established New England family. Its members include Josiah Bartlett (1729–95), who was born in Amesbury, MA, and became governor of NH (1790–94). A Richard Bartlet(t) settled in Newbury, MA, in 1635.
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German
German : variant of Barth, or from a Germanic personal name, cognate of Old High German beraht ‘bright’, ‘shining’, as in Berthold.English, Dutch, German, and Czech : from the personal name Bart, a short form of Bartolomaeus or its vernacular derivatives (see Bartholomew).
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English
English : from a pet form of the medieval personal name Bartholomew.German (Swabian : Bärtle): from a pet form of Bartolomäus (see Bartholomew) or Berthold. It is also found as an altered spelling of Bartel.
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The killing of a considerable number of human beings under circumstances of atrocity or cruelty, or contrary to the usages of civilized people; as, the massacre on St. Bartholomew's Day.