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Non-metropolitan district in England
Braintree District is a local government district in Essex, England. The district is named after the town of Braintree, where the council is based. The
Braintree_District
Town in Essex, England
Statistics had a population of 43,190. It is the largest settlement in the Braintree District, which also covers an extensive surrounding area. The town has grown
Braintree,_Essex
UK Parliament constituency (since 1974)
Saffron Walden. The District of Braintree wards of Black Notley, Bocking North, Bocking South, Braintree Central, Braintree East, Braintree West, Coggeshall
Braintree_(constituency)
Former local government area in the UK
Braintree Rural District was a local government district in the county of Essex, England. Established under the Local Government Act 1894, it served as
Braintree_Rural_District
Local government elections in Essex, England
elected from 26 wards. 1973 Braintree District Council election 1976 Braintree District Council election 1979 Braintree District Council election (New ward
Braintree District Council elections
Braintree_District_Council_elections
2023 English local election
The 2023 Braintree District Council election took place on 4 May 2023 to elect members of Braintree District Council in Essex, England. This was on the
2023 Braintree District Council election
2023_Braintree_District_Council_election
Public high school in Braintree, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States
the Braintree Public School district and is situated on the northwest side of Sunset Lake at 128 Town Street. Braintree's school colors are blue and white
Braintree_High_School
Former local government area in the UK
0.5533 Braintree and Bocking was an urban district in Essex, England. It was created in 1934 as a merger of the old urban district of Braintree with the
Braintree_and_Bocking
Topics referred to by the same term
Look up Braintree in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Braintree may refer to: Braintree, Essex, a town in England Braintree District Braintree (UK Parliament
Braintree
Area in the town of Braintree, Essex, England
northern edge of Braintree. The parish of Bocking was abolished in 1934, merging with Braintree to become the urban district of Braintree and Bocking, which
Bocking,_Essex
Braintree District Council election
The 1973 Braintree District Council election took place on 7 June 1973 to elect members of Braintree District Council in England. This was on the same
1973 Braintree District Council election
1973_Braintree_District_Council_election
Village in Essex, England
Beazley End is a village in Essex, England. Media related to Beazley End at Wikimedia Commons v t e
Beazley_End
Hamlet in Essex, England
Post town Braintree Postcode district CM77 8 Dialling code 01245 Police Essex Fire Essex Ambulance East of England UK Parliament Braintree List of places
Young's_End
page is a list of these buildings in the district of Braintree in Essex. Grade I listed buildings in Braintree The date given is the date used by Historic
Grade II* listed buildings in Braintree (district)
Grade_II*_listed_buildings_in_Braintree_(district)
English actor
Sam Swainsbury is an English actor, known for his roles as Jason in the BBC sitcom Mum and the Stonehenge TV reporter in Thor: The Dark World. Sam Swainsbury
Sam_Swainsbury
Manor house in Bocking, Essex, England
Harleian Society. p. 217. "Braintree: Residents want to buy farm". Braintree and Witham Times. Retrieved 2021-12-09. Braintree: Residents want to buy farm
Doreward's_Hall
Church in Essex, England
St Peter ad Vincula ('St Peter in chains') in Coggeshall, Essex, is one of a group of oversized churches built following the success of the early wool-trade
St Peter ad Vincula, Coggeshall
St_Peter_ad_Vincula,_Coggeshall
1991 UK local government election
The 1991 Braintree District Council election took place on 2 May 1991 to elect members of Braintree District Council in England. This was on the same
1991 Braintree District Council election
1991_Braintree_District_Council_election
Local election held in the United Kingdom
The 2011 Braintree District Council Elections took place on 5 May 2011 to elect members of Braintree District Council in England. This was on the same
2011 Braintree District Council election
2011_Braintree_District_Council_election
Village in Essex, England
Finchingfield is a village and civil parish in the Braintree district of North Essex, England, a primarily rural area. It is approximately 6 miles (10 km)
Finchingfield
English cricketer, journalist, and military historian
William Henry (Bullock) Hall DL JP (5 April 1837 – 21 April 1904) was an English first-class cricketer, journalist and military historian. The son of Henry
William_Bullock_(cricketer)
Village in Essex, England
village and civil parish in the Braintree district of Essex, England. It lies about 2 miles (3.2 km) west of Braintree on the A120 road. The settlement
Rayne,_Essex
2003 UK local government election
The 2003 Braintree District Council election took place on 1 May 2003 to elect members of Braintree District Council in England. This was on the same
2003 Braintree District Council election
2003_Braintree_District_Council_election
English engineer and entrepreneur (1883–1942)
Robert Bamford (16 June 1883 – 16 April 1942) was an English engineer who co-founded Bamford & Martin, which later became Aston Martin, with Lionel Martin
Robert_Bamford
British textile manufacturer (1802–1861)
George Courtauld (1802–1861) was a textile manufacturer and member of the Courtauld Family. He was born in Pebmarsh, Essex in 1802, the younger son of
George Courtauld (industrialist, born 1802)
George_Courtauld_(industrialist,_born_1802)
Rail line in East of England
The Braintree branch line is a railway branch line in the East of England that diverges from the Great Eastern Main Line at Witham and runs north-west
Braintree_branch_line
Braintree District Council election
The 1987 Braintree District Council election took place on 7 May 1987 to elect members of Braintree District Council in England. This was on the same
1987 Braintree District Council election
1987_Braintree_District_Council_election
Local election held in the United Kingdom
The 2015 Braintree District Council election was scheduled to take place on 7 May 2015 to elect members of Braintree District Council in England. This
2015 Braintree District Council election
2015_Braintree_District_Council_election
English election
The 1976 Braintree District Council election took place on 6 May 1976 to elect members of Braintree District Council in England. This was on the same
1976 Braintree District Council election
1976_Braintree_District_Council_election
Public school district in Massachusetts
The Braintree Public School District, located in Braintree, Massachusetts, includes Hollis Elementary School, Donald Ross Elementary School, Archie T.
Braintree_Public_Schools
Grade I listed Elizabethan country house in Essex
Spains Hall is an Elizabethan country house near Finchingfield in Essex, England. The building has been Grade I listed since 1953. The hall is named after
Spains_Hall
1995 UK local government election
The 1995 Braintree District Council election took place on 4 May 1995 to elect members of Braintree District Council in England. This was on the same
1995 Braintree District Council election
1995_Braintree_District_Council_election
Castle in Essex, England
Hedingham Castle, in the village of Castle Hedingham, Essex, is arguably the best preserved Norman keep in England. The castle fortifications and outbuildings
Hedingham_Castle
Braintree District Council election
The 1983 Braintree District Council election took place on 5 May 1983 to elect members of Braintree District Council in England. This was on the same
1983 Braintree District Council election
1983_Braintree_District_Council_election
Town in the Braintree district of Essex, England
and civil parish in the Braintree district of Essex, England. It lies on the River Colne, 6 miles (10 km) north-east of Braintree and 12 miles (19 km) north-west
Halstead
British musician
and Flightcrank. Thornhill was born in Barking but raised in Rayne near Braintree in Essex, and grew up as a football and James Brown fan.[citation needed]
Leeroy_Thornhill
English ceramics sculptor
Gillian Lowndes (19 June 1936 – 2 October 2010) was an English ceramics sculptor. Born in West Kirby, Cheshire in 1936, she spent much of her childhood
Gillian_Lowndes
Local election in the United Kingdom
The 2019 Braintree District Council election took place on 2 May 2019 to elect members of Braintree District Council in England. This was on the same
2019 Braintree District Council election
2019_Braintree_District_Council_election
Historic house and gardens in Coggeshall, Essex, England
Paycocke's House and Garden is a surviving example of a Tudor merchant's house and garden in Coggeshall, Essex, England. The house was built for Thomas
Paycocke's_House_and_Garden
Municipal building in Braintree, Essex, England
and Bocking Urban District Council, is a Grade II* listed building. In the early 20th century meetings of Braintree Urban District Council were held in
Braintree_Town_Hall
English singer-songwriter
Natasha Katherine Woods (born 25 October 1999), known professionally as Dylan (stylised in all caps), is an English musician, singer and songwriter. She
Dylan_(musician)
English cricketer
Walter Edward Grimston (16 May 1844 – 28 July 1932) was an English amateur cricketer. He mainly played amateur matches for I Zingari but did make a single
Walter_Grimston
English local election
The 2007 Braintree District Council election took place on 3 May 2007 to elect members of Braintree District Council in England. This was on the same
2007 Braintree District Council election
2007_Braintree_District_Council_election
British actress and writer
Amy Trigg (born in 1992) is a British actress and writer. She is best known for the role of Agnes in The Little Big Things, for which she won the Olivier
Amy_Trigg
Postcode area within the United Kingdom
postcode districts in England, within 16 post towns. These cover central Essex (including Chelmsford, Harlow, Brentwood, Billericay, Braintree, Burnham-on-Crouch
CM_postcode_area
Grade I listed Elizabethan country house
Moyns Park is a Grade I listed country house in Steeple Bumpstead, Essex. The home of the Gent family, until the late 19th century, was once owned by Major-General
Moyns_Park
English courtier and Catholic recusant
Sir Edward Waldegrave (c. 1516 – 1 September 1561) was an English courtier and Catholic recusant. Edward Waldegrave was the eldest son of John Waldegrave
Edward_Waldegrave
Parish church in Essex
Borley Church is the parish church in Borley, Essex, England. The church is in the ecclesiastical parish of Borley and Liston, one of the Fifteen Churches
Borley_Church
English actress (born 1946)
Tessa Charlotte Rampling (born 5 February 1946) is an English actress. An icon of the Swinging Sixties, she began her career as a model. She was cast in
Charlotte_Rampling
Village in Essex, England
an area in Belchamp Rural District Council until that, in turn, was abolished in 1974 with the creation of Braintree District Council. Due to its small
Borley
Country house in Essex, England
Belchamp Hall is a Queen Anne-style country house in the parish of Belchamp Walter, Essex, near Sudbury, Suffolk, England. It is a privately owned Grade
Belchamp_Hall
There are around 3,200 listed buildings in the Braintree District, which are buildings of architectural or historic interest. Grade I buildings are of
Listed buildings in Braintree District
Listed_buildings_in_Braintree_District
1999 UK local government election
The 1999 Braintree District Council election took place on 6 May 1999 to elect members of Braintree District Council in England. This was on the same
1999 Braintree District Council election
1999_Braintree_District_Council_election
Village and civil parish in Essex, England
non-Metropolitan district of Braintree governed by Braintree District Council. Sible Hedingham is within the Hedingham ward of Braintree District Council. The
Sible_Hedingham
18th century mansion in Terling, Essex, England
Terling Place is a country house within the civil parish of Terling, Essex, England, located to the south of All Saints' Church, Terling. It is recorded
Terling_Place
Hamlet in Essex, England
parish of The Salings, in the Braintree district of Essex, England. The hamlet is situated between the towns of Braintree and Great Dunmow. Nearby settlements
Blake_End
Village in Essex, England
parish in the Braintree District of Essex, England. It largely comprises modern housing built to the south-west of the town of Braintree, from which it
Great_Notley
Baron Scales
Lord Robert de Scales (died 1304) was a Knight Templar and loyal supporter of Edward I in his campaigns in Wales, Scotland, France and Flanders. In 1299
Robert Scales, 1st Baron Scales
Robert_Scales,_1st_Baron_Scales
Village in Essex, England
TL775395 District Braintree Shire county Essex Region East Country England Sovereign state United Kingdom Post town Halstead Postcode district CO9 Dialling code
Little_Yeldham
Former abbey in Essex, England
Coggeshall Abbey, situated south of the town of Coggeshall in Essex, England was founded in 1140 by King Stephen and Queen Matilda, as a Savigniac house
Coggeshall_Abbey
English election
The 1979 Braintree District Council election took place on 3 May 1979 to elect members of Braintree District Council in England. This was on the same
1979 Braintree District Council election
1979_Braintree_District_Council_election
English DJ (born 1964)
Stephen Paul Lamacq (born 16 October 1964), sometimes known by his nickname Lammo (given to him by John Peel), is an English disc jockey, currently working
Steve_Lamacq
Historic timber-framed building in Coggeshall, Essex, England
listed in the 1960s, and in 1982 it was compulsorily purchased by Braintree District Council, after pressure from a local group which also initiated the
Grange_Barn,_Coggeshall
British Indian Army general (1844–1918)
quartermaster-general of the Army in India and brigadier-general commanding Bundelkhand district. In the summer of 1900, when the Boxer Uprising in China was at its height
Alfred_Gaselee
Village in Essex, England
Wickham St Paul is a village and civil parish in the Braintree district of Essex, England. It lies 5 miles (8 km) north of Halstead, its post town. At
Wickham_St._Paul
Town and civil parish in Essex, England
Witham (/ˈwɪtəm/) is a town and civil parish in the Braintree district, in the county of Essex, England. It stands on the Roman road between the cities
Witham
Topics referred to by the same term
Ghanche District, Pakistan Saling Gewog - a gewog (village block) of Mongar District, Bhutan Bardfield Saling - a village and in the Braintree district of
Saling
English suffragette (1892–1995)
Annie Clara Huggett (1892–1995) was an English political activist in Barking, London. She was a suffragette, working to bring about women's suffrage in
Annie_Huggett
Church in Essex, England
Completed Original medieval, rebuilt 1840–41 Administration Province Canterbury Diocese Chelmsford Archdeaconry Colchester Deanery Braintree Parish Rayne
All_Saints'_Church,_Rayne
English singer (born 1983)
the Institute in Colchester. He then went on to do a media course at Braintree College. Cardle is a keen skateboarder and spent a lot of his college
Matt_Cardle
British Army general (1863–1915)
Major-General Sir Thompson Capper, KCMG, CB, DSO (20 October 1863 – 27 September 1915) was a senior British Army officer who served with distinction in
Thompson_Capper
Village in Essex, England
{[cn|date=August 2026}} in the civil parish of Finchingfield, in the Braintree district of Essex, England. The main part of the village is a ribbon development
Cornish_Hall_End
Building in England
2026-05-01. "In Photos: Stunning moated mansion with centuries of history up for £6.5 million". Braintree and Witham Times. 2022-03-27. Retrieved 2026-05-01.
Stanstead_Hall
Hamlet in Essex, England
parish of Stisted, in the Braintree district, in the county of Essex, England. It is near the towns of Halstead and Braintree, other nearby settlements
Tumbler's_Green
Village and civil parish in Essex, England
and civil parish in the Braintree District of Essex, England. It lies 3 miles (5 km) east of the centre of the town of Braintree. At the 2021 census the
Stisted
Local government district in North East Essex, England
south. It borders Tendring District to the east, Maldon District to the south, Braintree District to the west and Babergh District in Suffolk to the north
City_of_Colchester
Village in Essex, England
(3.1 mi) east of Braintree and is 19 km (12 mi) north-northeast from the county town of Chelmsford. The village is in the district and parliamentary
Bradwell_Juxta_Coggeshall
English actress (born 1956)
Juliet Anne Virginia Stevenson, CBE (born 30 October 1956) is an English actress of stage and screen, and a narrator. She is known for her role in the
Juliet_Stevenson
Village in Essex, England
parish of The Salings, in the Braintree district of Essex, England. It lies 4 miles (6 km) north-west of the town of Braintree. Great Saling was an ancient
Great_Saling
Family name from Southern England
The Bullock family traces its roots to the 12th century, living primarily in the southern English counties of Berkshire and Essex from the mid-Norman period
Bullock_family
Market Town in Essex, England
/ˈkɒɡɪʃəl/) is a Market Town and civil parish in the Braintree district of Essex, England. It lies between Braintree and Colchester on the Roman road of Stane Street
Coggeshall
English architect (1853–1937)
Hugh Thackeray Turner (8 March 1853 – 11 December 1937) was an English Arts and Crafts architect and also an amateur china painter. Hugh Turner was born
Hugh_Thackeray_Turner
Village in Essex, England
Braintree, in Essex, England. It was conceived in the 1920s as a model village by the industrialist Francis Henry Crittall, whose works at Braintree manufactured
Silver_End
British actress and centenarian
Dame Gwen Lucy Ffrangcon-Davies (25 January 1891 – 27 January 1992) was a British actress who worked mainly in theatre and television, as well as radio
Gwen_Ffrangcon-Davies
Essex County Council, twelve non-metropolitan districts and two unitary authorities: Uttlesford Braintree Colchester Tendring Harlow Epping Forest Chelmsford
Upcoming structural changes to local government in England
Upcoming_structural_changes_to_local_government_in_England
Former Templar possession in Essex, England
Cressing Temple is a medieval site situated between Witham and Braintree in Essex, close to the villages of Cressing and White Notley. It was amongst
Cressing_Temple
Church in Essex, England
Holy Innocents Church is an Anglican church in the village of Lamarsh, in Essex, England. The building has a round tower and dates from the 12th century
Holy Innocents Church, Lamarsh
Holy_Innocents_Church,_Lamarsh
Village in Essex, England
Pentlow is a village and civil parish in the Braintree district, in the county of Essex, England. It is just south of the River Stour, and nearby settlements
Pentlow
English gynaecologist and obstetric surgeon
Isaac Baker Brown (8 June 1812 – 3 February 1873) was a prominent[page needed] 19th-century English gynaecologist and obstetrical surgeon. He had a reputation
Isaac_Baker_Brown
Village and civil parish in Essex, England
Rivenhall is a village and civil parish near Witham in the Braintree district of Essex, England. As well as the small village of Rivenhall itself, the
Rivenhall
Retrieved 4 February 2008. "The industrial development of Braintree". Enjoy Braintree District. Archived from the original on 30 October 2007. Retrieved
List of railway stations in Essex
List_of_railway_stations_in_Essex
Organisation within the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence
The Ministry of Defence Police and Guarding Agency (MDPGA) was an organisation within the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence between 2004 and 2013. It
Ministry of Defence Police and Guarding Agency
Ministry_of_Defence_Police_and_Guarding_Agency
Country house in Essex, England
Faulkbourne Hall is a manor house in the village of Faulkbourne in Essex. The hall has been a Grade I listed building since 1953, and its gardens have
Faulkbourne_Hall
Village in Essex, England
civil parish in the Braintree district of Essex, England, about six miles from Haverhill on the main road between Haverhill and Braintree. At the 2021 census
Ridgewell
Village in Essex, England
Cressing is a village and civil parish in the Braintree district of Essex, England. Within the parish is the village of Tye Green and the hamlet of Hawbush
Cressing
Hamlet in Essex, England
Green is a hamlet in the Braintree district, in the county of Essex, England. Other nearby settlements include the town of Braintree and the villages of Great
Rank's_Green
Village in Essex, England
Belchamp Walter. The village is in the district of Braintree and in the parliamentary constituency of Braintree. At the 2021 census the parish had a population
Belchamp_Otten
Park in Essex, United Kingdom
is a 13.1 hectare Local Nature Reserve in Braintree in Essex. It is owned and managed by Braintree District Council. In 2016 the council proposed to extend
Bocking_Blackwater
Village in Essex, England
Wethersfield is a village and civil parish on the B1053 road in the Braintree district of Essex, England. As well as the village itself, the parish also
Wethersfield,_Essex
Hamlet in Essex, England
parish of Coggeshall, to the west of the town of Coggeshall, in the Braintree district, in Essex, England. "Gazetteer of British Place Names Stockstreet"
Stockstreet
BRAINTREE DISTRICT
BRAINTREE DISTRICT
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name or habitational name from a dialect variant of Old and Middle English toft ‘curtilage’, ‘site’, ‘homestead’, also applied to a low hillock where a homestead used to be. Compare Toft.Robert Taft (b. about 1640), lived in Braintree, MA, and subsequently Mendon, MA. Alphonso Taft (1810–91), jurist and politician born in Townshend, VT, was the father of William Howard Taft (1857–1930), 27th president of the U.S. and chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from either of two places, in Cheshire and West Yorkshire, called Ledsham. The first is named with the Old English personal name LÄ“ofede + Old English hÄm ‘homestead’ and the second is recorded in Domesday Book as Ledesham ‘homestead within the district of Leeds’.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from the Old Norse and Middle English personal name Ing(a), a short form of various names with the first element Ing- (see Ingle).English : habitational name from an Essex place name, Ing, which survives with various manorial affixes in the names Fryerning, Ingatestone, Ingrave, and Margaretting, and which is probably from an Old English tribal name Gēingas ‘people of the district’.Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : nickname from Yiddish ing ‘young’.Chinese : possibly a variant of Wu 1.Chinese : possibly a variant of Wu 4.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from Middle English, Old French brachet, denoting a type of hound. The word was also used as a term of abuse.Captain Richard Brackett (1610–c. 1691) came to Boston, MA, in about 1629, and moved to Braintree, MA, in 1641.
Surname or Lastname
English and Dutch
English and Dutch : from Latin Marcus, the personal name of St. Mark the Evangelist, author of the second Gospel. The name was borne also by a number of other early Christian saints. Marcus was an old Roman name, of uncertain (possibly non-Italic) etymology; it may have some connection with the name of the war god Mars. Compare Martin. The personal name was not as popular in England in the Middle Ages as it was on the Continent, especially in Italy, where the evangelist became the patron of Venice and the Venetian Republic, and was allegedly buried at Aquileia. As an American family name, this has absorbed cognate and similar names from other European languages, including Greek Markos and Slavic Marek.English, German, and Dutch (van der Mark) : topographic name for someone who lived on a boundary between two districts, from Middle English merke, Middle High German marc, Middle Dutch marke, merke, all meaning ‘borderland’. The German term also denotes an area of fenced-off land (see Marker 5) and, like the English word, is embodied in various place names which have given rise to habitational names.English (of Norman origin) : habitational name from Marck, Pas-de-Calais.German : from Marko, a short form of any of the Germanic compound personal names formed with mark ‘borderland’ as the first element, for example Markwardt.Americanization or shortened form of any of several like-sounding Jewish or Slavic surnames (see for example Markow, Markowitz, Markovich).Irish (northeastern Ulster) : probably a short form of Markey (when not of English origin).
Surname or Lastname
English and French
English and French : variant of Marchand.John Marchant (c.1600–c.1668) was in Newport, RI, before 1638. In that year he moved to Braintree, MA, then to Watertown, MA (1642), and finally to Yarmouth, MA (1648). His descendants included many sea captains and other prominent people.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from any of ten or more minor places known as ‘the king’s land’, such as Kingsland in South Molton, Devon, or Kingsland in Hackney, Greater London (formerly Middlesex), both named from Middle English kingis ‘of the king’+ land ‘land’.English : habitational name from Kingsland in Herefordshire near Leominster, which is named as ‘the king’s estate in Leon’. Leon is the old Celtic name for the district, meaning ‘at the streams’.
Surname or Lastname
English (very common in England, especially in the south Midlands, and in Wales) and German (especially northwestern Germany)
English (very common in England, especially in the south Midlands,
and in Wales) and German (especially northwestern Germany) : patronymic
from the personal name Adam. In the U.S. this form has absorbed
many patronymics and other derivatives of Adam in languages
other than English. (For forms, see Hanks and Hodges 1988.)This American family name was borne by two early presidents of the
United States, father and son. They were descended from Henry Adams,
who settled in Braintree, MA, in 1635/6, from Barton St. David,
Somerset, England. The younger of the two presidents, John Quincy
Adams (1767–1848) derived his middle name from his maternal
grandmother’s family name (see
Surname or Lastname
English
English : perhaps a patronymic from the medieval personal name Nel or Neal (see Nelson).Possibly a variant of German Neils, a derivative of the personal name Cornelius.John Niles from England was known to have been in Dorchester, MA, as early as 1634 before putting down roots in Braintree, MA, where his grandson Samuel was a Congregational clergyman for many years.
Surname or Lastname
English, Scottish, Dutch, and French
English, Scottish, Dutch, and French : variant of Henry 1. In Scotland this surname is common in the Ayr and Fife districts; in northern Ireland it is usually from the Scottish variant Hendrie, though some examples of the name were originally as at Henry 3.
Surname or Lastname
English and Scottish
English and Scottish : topographic name from Middle English lees ‘fields’, ‘arable land’, plural of lee (see Lee), or from Middle English lese ‘pasture’, ‘meadow’ (Old English lǣs).English : habitational name from Leece or Lees in Lancashire, or Leese in Cheshire, all named from Old English lēas ‘woodland clearings’ (plural of lēah), or from Leece in Cumbria, which was probably named with a Celtic word, lïss ‘hall’, ‘court’, ‘the principal house in a district’.English : variant spelling of Leece 1.Scottish : reduced form of Gillies.Scottish and Irish : reduced and altered form of McLeish.Dutch : variant of Leys.
Girl/Female
Gujarati, Indian, Kannada
A Flower; Raintree
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from the Old French and Middle English personal name Amys, Amice, which is either directly from Latin amicus ‘friend’, used as a personal name, or via a Late Latin derivative of this, Amicius.German : of uncertain origin. Perhaps a nickname for an active person, from a Germanic word related to Old High German amazzig ‘busy’. Compare modern German Ameise ‘ant’.William Ames, the son of Richard Ames of Bruton, Somerset, came to Braintree, MA, from England in about 1640. He had numerous prominent descendants.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from any of the numerous places named in Old English as ‘long ford’, from lang, long ‘long’ + ford ‘ford’, except for Langford in Nottinghamshire, which is named with an Old English personal name Landa or possibly land, here used in a specific sense such as ‘boundary’ or ‘district’, with the same second element.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from the Middle English personal name Hann + the hypocoristic suffix -cok, which was commonly added to personal names (see Cocke).Dutch : from Middle Dutch hanecoc ‘winkle’, ‘periwinkle’ (a type of shellfish), probably a metonymic occupational name for someone who gathered and sold shellfish.Thomas Hancock, the uncle of Declaration of Independence signatory John Hancock (1736/7–93), was among the foremost of 18th-century American businessmen. He was a descendant of Nathaniel Hancock, who was known to have been in Cambridge, MA, as early as 1634. Born in Braintree, MA, John Hancock was president of the Second Continental Congress and the first governor of the state of MA.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from the district so called near Liverpool, consisting of Uplitherland and Downlitherland. The place name is derived from Old Norse hlÃðar, genitive of hlÃð ‘slope’ + land ‘land’.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : regional name from the coastal district of eastern Yorkshire (now Humberside), the origin of which is probably Old Norse hǫldr, within the Danelaw (the region of pre-conquest England where Danish rule and custom was dominant) a rank of feudal nobility immediately below that of earl, + nes ‘nose’, ‘headland’.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from the city in West Yorkshire, or the place in Kent. The former is of British origin, appearing in Bede in the form Loidis ‘People of the LÄt’, (LÄt being an earlier name of the river Aire, meaning ‘the violent one’). Loidis was originally a district name, but was subsequently restricted to the city. The Kentish place name may be from an Old English stream name hlÌ„de ‘loud, rushing stream’.Daniel Leeds (1652–1720) was born in England, probably in Nottinghamshire, and emigrated to America with his father, Thomas, some time in the third quarter of the 17th century. The family settled in Shrewsbury, NJ, in 1677. Daniel made almanacs and was surveyor general of the Province of West Jersey in 1682. He was married four times and had numerous children.
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English : unexplained.Daniel Brainerd came to Hartford, CT, in 1649 at around the age of eight. There is a widespread belief that he came from Braintree, Essex, England, and that his surname may be an altered form of that place name, but there is no documentation to support this. In 1662, at the age of 21, he became one of the founders of Haddam, CT.
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English : habitational name from a place in Nottinghamshire, named in Old English as ‘homestead at a (district) boundary’, from mearc ‘boundary’ + hÄm ‘homestead’.Irish : English surname used as an equivalent of Gaelic Ó Marcacháin ‘descendant of Marcachán’, a diminutive of Marcach (see Markey). This is a Galway surname, which is sometimes ‘translated’ as Ryder.
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