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English
English : habitational name from a place in the parish of Halifax, West Yorkshire, so named from an unattested Old English word, scacol ‘tongue of land’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.The British Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton (1874–1922) was born in Kilkee, Ireland; his father’s Quaker family came from Yorkshire, England.
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English : unexplained. Possibly an Anglicized form of Dutch Swijse(n), variant of Wijs ‘wise’ (see Wise).The name was brought to North America by John Swasey, a Quaker who came from England to Salem, MA, with two sons, John and Joseph, in or before 1640. Banished from Salem because of his religious beliefs, he moved first to Setauket, Long Island, NY, and subsequently to Southold, Long Island. His son Joseph remained in MA and inherited his estate at Salem.
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English : variant of Holland 1.Americanized form of Norwegian Hovland.Howland was the name of three Quaker brothers, original settlers in Marshfield, MA. They were from Huntingdonshire, England. The eldest, John Howland (c.1593–1672) was a passenger on the Mayflower, servant to Gov. John Carver, who died in the first winter at Plymouth Colony.
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English : unexplained.Italian (Venice and Mantua) and Greek (Zanes) : from a variant of the Venetian personal name Z(u)an(n)i ‘John’ (see Zani).Americanized spelling of German and Jewish Zahn.Robert Zane was a cloth maker of English origin, a founding member of the Quaker colony that was set up at Salem, NJ, in 1676.
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English : habitational name for someone from Wigmore in Herefordshire, so named from Old English wicga in the sense ‘something moving’, ‘quaking’ + mÅr ‘marsh’.
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English : habitational name from an unidentified place (probably in southern England, where the surname is commonest and where chalk hills abound), apparently named with Old English cealc ‘chalk’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.Quaker minister Thomas Chalkley of Southwark, England, first came to America in 1698, on a preaching journey, and in 1700 he brought his family over to MD. The next year he moved to Philadelphia, and in 1723 to a plantation he had purchased in the nearby suburb of Frankford, later a part of the city. As his family grew, he became a sea trader.
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English : nickname from some fancied resemblance to the songbird (Emberiza spp.).German : patronymic from an unexplained Frisian-Lower Saxon personal name, or a derivative of Bunt- (see Bunten).Sarah Bunting (1686–1762), born in Matlock, Derbyshire, became a noted Quaker minister in Cross Wicks, NJ. It is believed but not certain that other members of her family, including her father, John Bunting, came with her to NJ sometime before 1704, when her marriage to William Murfin is recorded.
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English : from the Middle English personal name Kynsey, a survival of Old English Cynesige, composed of the elements cyne ‘royal’ + sige ‘victory’.This name may also have assimilated some cases of Scottish MacKenzie, with the Mac prefix omitted.Possibly an Americanized spelling of Swiss German Künzi (see Kuenzi).The paternal grandfather of NJ and PA legislator John Kinsey (1693–1750) was one of the commissioners sent out from England in 1677 by the West Jersey proprietors to buy land from the Indians and to lay out a town. John was the leader of the Quaker party in the PA assembly and chief justice of the PA supreme court.
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English (chiefly Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, and Yorkshire)
English (chiefly Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, and Yorkshire) : from an Old English personal name, Merewine, Merefinn, or MÇ£rwynn (see Marvin).The first Murfins in North America were Nottinghamshire Quakers. Robert and Ann Murfin and their daughter Mary sailed from Hull, England, in 1678 on the ship Shield of Stockton and settled at Chesterfield, near Burlington, NJ.
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English (of Norman origin)
English (of Norman origin) : from a nickname meaning ‘good’, from Old French bon ‘good’. Compare Bone 1.English (of Norman origin) : habitational name from Bohon in La Manche, France, of obscure etymology.Dutch : from Middle Dutch bone, boene ‘bean’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a bean grower or a nickname for a man of little importance (broad beans having been an extremely common crop in the medieval period), or possibly for a tall thin man (with reference to the runner bean).The renowned American frontiersman Daniel Boone (1734–1820) was born in Reading, PA, into a Quaker family. His grandfather was a weaver who had emigrated from Exeter in England to Philadelphia in 1717.
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English : nickname for a bald-headed man or someone of cadaverous appearance, from Middle English sc(h)olle, sc(h)ulle ‘skull’ (probably of Scandinavian origin).Nicholas Scull emigrated from Bristol, England, to Philadelphia, PA, with his brother John in 1685. He founded a wealthy Quaker family whose descendants have been prominent in western PA, in law, newspaper publication, and banking.
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English
English : habitational name from a place in Greater Manchester called Pemberton, from Celtic penn ‘hill’, ‘head’ + Old English bere ‘barley’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.There seem to have been several families called de Pemberton in the Wigan area of Manchester, England, as early as the beginning of the 13th century, notably that of Adam de Pemberton, a substantial landowner Three Quaker brothers named Pemberton were born in Philadelphia: Israel (b. 1715), James (b. 1723), and John (b. 1727); Israel and James became wealthy merchants and philanthropists.
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English : unexplained.John Mifflin (born 1640) came to Delaware from Warminster, Wiltshire, England, in the 1670s. He is probably the same person as the John Mifflin, a Quaker, who built his home, ‘Fountain Green’, in Fairmont Park, Philadelphia, in 1679. His fourth-generation descendant Thomas Mifflin (1744–1800) was a member of the Continental Congress, a revolutionary soldier, and governor of PA.
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English (mainly northeastern)
English (mainly northeastern) : habitational name from any of various minor places (including perhaps some now lost) named from Old English hÄr ‘gray’, hara ‘hare’, or hær ‘rock’, ‘tumulus’ + land ‘tract of land’, ‘estate’, ‘cultivated land’, notably Harland in Kirkbymoorside. North Yorkshire, which is named from hær + land. This surname has been present in northern Ireland since the 17th century.French (Normandy) : nickname for someone given to stirring up trouble, from the present participle of medieval French hareler ‘to create a disturbance’.George and Michael Harland were Quakers who emigrated from Durham, England, to Ireland. George went on to DE in 1687 and became governor in 1695, while Michael went to Philadelphia. George Harland’s descendants, who dropped the final -d from their name, included a number of prominent American politicians, in particular James Harlan (1820–99), who became a senator and secretary of the interior.
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English : variant of Rhodes.German : variant spelling of Rohde (see Rode), principally a habitational name from any of various places named Rohde or Rohden in Lower Saxony, Saxony, Westphalia, and Hesse.According to family tradition, a certain John Rhode (1752–1840) was a Quaker who came to SC from Germany in the 1770s and served as a baggageman or teamster during the American Revolution.
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English : variant of Ralph.A Francis Rawle from the parish of St. Juliot in Cornwall, England, was recorded as living in Plymouth, MA, in 1660. Devout Quakers seeking to escape persecution, the family emigrated to PA in 1686, bringing with them a deed from William Penn for a tract of 2,500 acres of land, which was subsequently located in Plymouth township, Philadelphia (now Montgomery) Co. His son, who had six sons himself, was a political economist and one of the first people to write on the subject and its local applications in America.
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English : habitational name from various places, for example Penn in Buckinghamshire and Staffordshire, named with the Celtic element pen ‘hill’, which was apparently adopted in Old English.English : metonymic occupational name for an impounder of stray animals, from Middle English, Old English penn ‘(sheep) pen’.English : pet form of Parnell.German : from Sorbian pien ‘tree stump’, probably a nickname for a short stocky person.Americanized form of a like-sounding Jewish surname.The Commonwealth of PA was founded in 1681 by an English Quaker, William Penn (1644–1718), who was born in London into a family of Gloucestershire origin. His grandfather was a merchant and sea captain, and his father was an admiral on the Parliamentary side during the Civil War, who later served King Charles II after the Restoration. Because of his father’s services to the crown, Penn the younger received a grant of a vast tract of land in North America, formerly part of New Netherland, which later became the state of PA.
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English (chiefly Yorkshire)
English (chiefly Yorkshire) : habitational name from a place named with the Old English phrase (æt ðǣm) nēowan hūsum ‘(at the) new houses’. This and some of the variants listed below are common as place names in northern England. In the form Newsom, the surname is also established in Ireland, being the name of a Quaker family in County Cork.
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English
English : habitational name from any of the places, for example in Cheshire, County Durham, Hertfordshire, Norfolk, Shropshire, Warwickshire, Wiltshire, Worcestershire, and North and West Yorkshire, so called from Old English stocc ‘tree trunk’ or stoc ‘dependent settlement’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. It is not possible to distinguish between the two first elements on the basis of early forms.A family of this name were established in America by an English Quaker, Richard Stockton, in 1656. He bought large tracts of land around Princeton, NJ, and founded an estate on which his great-grandson, Richard Stockton (1730–81), a leading colonial lawyer and one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, was born.
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English
English : variant of Boone.John Bowne (c. 1627–95), a Quaker, came from Matlock, Derbyshire, England, to Boston, MA, in 1651.
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English (Kent)
English (Kent) : from Middle English apse ‘aspen tree’ (Old English æpse). See also Asp. Generally, this was a topographic name for someone who lived by an aspen or a habitational name from a place named with this word, as for example Apps in Surrey, Apse on the Isle of Wight, or Asps in Warwickshire. Occasionally it may have been applied as a nickname for a timorous person, with reference to the trembling leaves.Dutch : variant of Epps.
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Hindu, Indian
Culture
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Tamil
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Most beautiful
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Russian
Variant spelling of Russian Avdotya, AVDOTIA means "good-seeming."
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Hindu, Indian
Goddess Saraswati
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Arabic, Muslim, Sindhi
One who Collects Booty
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Gentle
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Tamil
Songs of worship, Famous, Prayer
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Welsh
Hammer.
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Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
Lovely Prince
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a.
Trembling; quaking.
n.
An involuntary trembling, sometimes an effect of paralysis, but usually caused by terror or fear; quaking; quivering.
n.
One of a religious sect founded by George Fox, of Leicestershire, England, about 1650, -- the members of which call themselves Friends. They were called Quakers, originally, in derision. See Friend, n., 4.
imp. & p. p.
of Quake
a.
Resembling Quakers; Quakerlike; Quakerish.
n.
The state of being quaky; liability to quake.
n.
Quakerism.
adv.
In a quaking manner; fearfully.
a.
Like or pertaining to a Quaker; Quakerlike.
n.
The peculiar character, manners, tenets, etc., of the Quakers.
v. i.
To shake, vibrate, or quiver, either from not being solid, as soft, wet land, or from violent convulsion of any kind; as, the earth quakes; the mountains quake.
n.
A member of a monotheistic sect of Hindoos. Sadhs resemble the Quakers in many respects.
n.
One who quakes.
n.
Any grasshopper or locust of the genus (Edipoda; -- so called from the quaking noise made during flight.
a.
Like a Quaker.
a.
Shaky, or tremulous; quaking.
v. t.
To cause to quake.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Quake
v. i.
To shake involuntarily, as with fear, cold, or weakness; to quake; to quiver; to shiver; to shudder; -- said of a person or an animal.