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Armstrong
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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