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Northern English or Southern Scots nickname from arm + strong.
Crofts
English name for someone who lived by an arable enclosure normally ajoining a house.
Follows
English name from the West Midlands region.
Perhaps from fallows (somone living near fallow land) or fellows (partner or share
holder).
Hall
English, German, Danish, Norwegian & Swedish.
English name for someone who lived near a large house or a occupational name for someone
who employed at a hall or manor.
Old English - heall.
Hill
English name for someone who lived near or on a hill. Old English - hyll.
James
English name from the same origin as Jacob - comes from Jacobus & Facomus.
Kirk
Northern English or Scots name for someone living near a church or working in one.
Mills
English & Scots name.
A name for someone who lived near a mill or the occupational name for the
miller.
Sheppard
A occupational name for a shepherd. Old English - 'sheep' + 'hierde' (herdsman).
Warner
Name made up of 'warin' (guard) + 'heri','hari' (army) from warnier (Norman).
Woods
A name for someone who lived near or in a wood. Old English - wudu.
Wootton
A habitation name for any of the extremely numerous places so called from :-
Old Engish - 'wudu' (wood) + 'tun' (enclosure)
Wright
English & Scots name.
Common Occupational name for a maker of machinery or objects mostly in wood. Old English -
wyrhta.
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