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101Myerscough — Perhaps not surprisingly, this very interesting English surname as shown below, is recorded in many different forms. It is locational from a village called Myerscough, near Garstang, in the county of Lancashire. The derivation is from the pre 7th …
102Sagrott — Perhaps not surprisingly this English surame is recorded in many different spellings. These include Sagreet, Sagrott, Seagrott, Segrott, Seegrott, and Seagroat. We believe that it has a similar, and possibly identical origin, to the famous… …
103Segrott — Perhaps not surprisingly this English surame is recorded in many different spellings. These include Sagreet, Sagrott, Seagrott, Segrott, Seegrott, and Seagroat. We believe that it has a similar, and possibly identical origin, to the famous… …
104Sex — Perhaps it is overstating the obvious to say that this interesting surname has no apparent connection with its modern (medieval) popular meaning. The surname Sex has two possible sources of derivation, the first is from the Latin Sextus meaning… …
105Tennet — Perhaps as many as 15% of all surnames derive from some form of metonymic or nickname. In this case Tennet is a developed patronymic form of the Latin Tenere and translates as Little Tenere or son of Tenere , Quite why anybody should be called… …
106Weond — Perhaps as many as thirty percent of all modern surnames form variants of an original base name, and particularly so if the spelling is now meaningless in any known language. This definitely is the case with Weond , a name not apparently recorded …
107Whiskerd — Perhaps not surprisingly, there are a number of alternative spellings of this unusual name, including the Scottish Wishart . However spelt, the name has nothing to do with Whiskers it is not in anyway a nickname, but is of Norse Viking… …
108Pindar — Perhaps the greatest lyric poet of ancient Greece (died ca. 438 B.C.), whose work was much read in Byzantium (q.v.). Those who wrote commentaries on Pindar included Eustathios of Thessalonike (q.v.) …
109ANANDA — (?) perhaps the best known of the BUDDHA S DISCIPLES and a cousin of the Buddha. His name means Joy. He lived with the Buddha for twenty five years as his personal attendant and was entrusted by the Buddha with the task of teaching doctrine.… …
110mayhap — perhaps Forthright s Forsoothery …
