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English (but most common in Wales)
English (but most common in Wales) : from Lowis, Lodovicus, a Norman personal name composed of the Germanic elements hlod ‘fame’ + wīg ‘war’. This was the name of the founder of the Frankish dynasty, recorded in Latin chronicles as Ludovicus and Chlodovechus (the latter form becoming Old French Clovis, Clouis, Louis, the former developing into German Ludwig). The name was popular throughout France in the Middle Ages and was introduced to England by the Normans. In Wales it became inextricably confused with 2.Welsh : from an Anglicized form of the personal name Llywelyn (see Llewellyn).Irish and Scottish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Lughaidh ‘son of Lughaidh’. This is one of the most common Old Irish personal names. It is derived from Lugh ‘brightness’, which was the name of a Celtic god.Americanized form of any of various like-sounding Jewish surnames.This name was brought independently to New England by many bearers from the 17th century onward. William Lewis was one of the founders of Hartford, CT, (coming from Cambridge, MA, with Thomas Hooker) in 1635.
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English (also found in Wales)
English (also found in Wales) : patronymic from the Middle English personal name Jenk, a back-formation from Jenkin with the removal of the supposed Anglo-Norman French diminutive suffix -in.Joseph Jenks (1602–83), the descendant of an old Welsh family, was born in England and traveled to Saugus, near Lynn, MA, in 1642 to assist in the development of America’s first iron works. His son, Joseph Jenckes (sic), followed in 1650, founded Pawtucket, RI, and raised four sons who held places of respect and distinction in RI, including one who served as governor for five years.
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English (also common in South Wales)
English (also common in South Wales) : patronymic from the personal name Edmund (see Edmond).
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English (Midlands and Wales)
English (Midlands and Wales) : apparently a variant of Hammonds.
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English (Cornwall and Wales)
English (Cornwall and Wales) : variant of Jack.Czech (JaÄka), Polish, and German (of Slavic origin) : from a pet form (Czech JaÄ, Polish Jacz) of any of the various Slavic personal names beginning with Ja-, for example Jakub, Jan, Jacenty (see Jacek).
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English (also common in Wales)
English (also common in Wales) : patronymic from the Middle English and Anglo-Norman French personal name Hugh.Welsh : variant of Howells.Irish and Scottish : variant Anglicization of Gaelic Mac Aodha (see McCoy).
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English and Welsh (very common in southern England and South Wales)
English and Welsh (very common in southern England and South Wales) : patronymic from the medieval English personal name Harry, pet form of Henry.This name is also well established in Ireland, taken there principally during the Plantation of Ulster. In some cases, particularly in families coming from County Mayo, both Harris and Harrison can be Anglicized forms of Gaelic Ó hEarchadha.Greek : reduced form of the Greek personal name Kharalambos, composed of the elements khara ‘joy’ + lambein ‘to shine’.Jewish : Americanized form of any of various like-sounding Jewish names.
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English (mainly southern England and South Wales) and Irish
English (mainly southern England and South Wales) and Irish : from the Old English personal name Hearding, originally a patronymic from Hard 1. The surname was first taken to Ireland in the 15th century, and more families of the name settled there 200 years later in Tipperary and surrounding counties.North German and Dutch : patronymic from a short form of any of the various Germanic compound personal names beginning with hard ‘hardy’, ‘brave’, ‘strong’.Warren Gamaliel Harding (1865–1923), the 29th president of the U.S., was born on a farm in OH, of English and Scottish stock on his father’s side. Early American bearers of this very common name include Joseph Harding who died at Plymouth in 1633. His great-great grandson Seth was a naval officer during the American Revolution.
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English (mainly central southern England and South Wales)
English (mainly central southern England and South Wales) : topographic name for someone who lived by a path across a heath, from Middle English hathe ‘heath’ + weye ‘way’.from an (apparently rare) Old English female personal name, Heaðuwīg, composed of the elements heaðu ‘strife’, ‘contention’ + wīg ‘war’.
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English (also common in Wales)
English (also common in Wales) : patronymic from Edward.One of the earliest American bearers of this very common English surname was William Edwards, the son of Rev. Richard Edwards, a London clergyman in the age of Elizabeth I, who came to New England about 1640. His descendant Jonathan (1703–58), of East Windsor, CT, was a prominent Congregational clergyman whose New England theology led to the first Great Awakening, a great religious revival.
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English (found mainly in Wales)
English (found mainly in Wales) : variant of Glasscock 2.
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English (chiefly South Wales)
English (chiefly South Wales) : unexplained; possibly an altered form of Hamer or perhaps a habitational name from minor places in Cheshire and Somerset called Haymoor or from Haymore Farm in Shropshire.
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English (also well established in South Wales)
English (also well established in South Wales) : topographic name for someone who lived in a nook or hollow, from Old English and Middle English hale, dative of h(e)alh ‘nook’, ‘hollow’. In northern England the word often has a specialized meaning, denoting a piece of flat alluvial land by the side of a river, typically one deposited in a bend. In southeastern England it often referred to a patch of dry land in a fen. In some cases the surname may be a habitational name from any of the several places in England named with this fossilized inflected form, which would originally have been preceded by a preposition, e.g. in the hale or at the hale.English : from a Middle English personal name derived from either of two Old English bynames, Hæle ‘hero’ or Hægel, which is probably akin to Germanic Hagano ‘hawthorn’ (see Hain 2).Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Céile (see McHale).Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant spelling of Halle.Robert Hale, who settled in Cambridge, MA, in 1632, was an ancestor of the revolutionary war patriot and spy Nathan Hale (1755–76) of CT. The common English surname was brought independently in the 17th century to VA and MD.
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English (mainly Wales)
English (mainly Wales) : possibly a reduced form of Hilliard.French : from a derivative (pejorative) of Hilaire, French form of Hillary 1.
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English (mainly South Wales and southwestern England)
English (mainly South Wales and southwestern England) : from the medieval personal name Harry, which was the usual vernacular form of Henry, with assimilation of the consonantal cluster and regular Middle English change of -er- to -ar-.French : from the Germanic personal name Hariric, composed of the elements hari, heri ‘army’ + rīc ‘power(ful)’.
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English (also common in South Wales)
English (also common in South Wales) : habitational name from any of the places so called in Devon, Dorset, Somerset, and Wiltshire, named with Old English hīwisc, a measure of land considered sufficient to support a household.
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English (Gloucestershire and South Wales)
English (Gloucestershire and South Wales) : most probably from the Norman personal name Luce (a vernacular form of Latin Lucia or Lucius). This is generally a female name, although male bearers are found in France. It was borne by a young Sicilian maiden and an aged Roman widow, both of whom were martyred under Diocletian and are venerated as saints.English (Gloucestershire and South Wales) : Alternatively, the surname may be a variant of Lewis.English (Gloucestershire and South Wales) : American bearers of this surname are descended from Henry Luce (1640–c.1688), who came to Scituate, MA, from south Wales in or before 1666, and moved to Martha’s Vineyard, MA, in about 1670. He had many prominent descendants.
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English (Wales and the West Midlands)
English (Wales and the West Midlands) : variant of Hollifield.
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English (chiefly southwestern England and South Wales)
English (chiefly southwestern England and South Wales) : habitational name from an unidentified place, probably a variant of Harford or Hereford.
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English (southwestern, also found in South Wales)
English (southwestern, also found in South Wales) : variant of Veazey.Americanized spelling of German Fehse, Vehse, variants of Feese.Americanized spelling of Swiss German Fäsi, from a pet form of the personal name Gervasius (see Gervais).
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n.
The language of Wales, or of the Welsh people.
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A tax or tallage; in Wales, an honorary gift of the people to a new king or prince of Wales; also, a tribute paid, in the country palatine of Chester, England, at the change of the owner of the earldom.
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An instrument of music formerly popular in Wales, consisting of a wooden pipe, with holes at intervals. It was so called because the bell at the open end was sometimes made of horn.
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A name applied in the 18th century to certain Calvinistic Methodists in Wales whose worship was characterized by violent convulsions.
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Certain sets or strakes of the outside planking of a vessel; as, the main wales, or the strakes of planking under the port sills of the gun deck; channel wales, or those along the spar deck, etc.
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The natives or inhabitants of Wales.
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A wind instrument or pipe, with a horn at each end, -- used in Wales.
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To mark with wales, or stripes.
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The consort of a prince; as, the princess of Wales.
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A territorial border or frontier; a region adjacent to a boundary line; a confine; -- used chiefly in the plural, and in English history applied especially to the border land on the frontiers between England and Scotland, and England and Wales.
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The territory or jurisdiction of a prince; or the country which gives title to a prince; as, the principality of Wales.
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A native or inhabitant of Wales; one of the Welsh.
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Of or pertaining to Wales, or its inhabitants.
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Of or pertaining to a royal line of England, descended from Owen Tudor of Wales, who married the widowed queen of Henry V. The first reigning Tudor was Henry VII.; the last, Elizabeth.
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A treasurer or receiver of public money; as, the chamberlain of London, of North Wales, etc.
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A person living in the marches between England and Scotland or Wales.
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A tenth; the tenth part of anything; specifically, the tenthpart of the increase arising from the profits of land and stock, allotted to the clergy for their support, as in England, or devoted to religious or charitable uses. Almost all the tithes of England and Wales are commuted by law into rent charges.
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A large iron bucket used in Cornwall and Wales for raising ore out of mines.