English Heritage - The Names of England

[garynortheast]

Anyone looked at this?
https://namesofengland.english-heritage.org.uk/

Although I've lived in Wales for nearly four decades my family is originally from Sussex. I never realised how far back the family went.

This was the result of a search against my name.

NORTHEAST
MOST COMMON IN
Brighton

NUMBER OF ADULTS
281

English: locative name from Northease Farm in Rodmell (Sussex), which is recorded as Northesia in 1087–1100 and Northhese in 1347.

[Seeker]

My name is too rare to appear.

Although I'm now in Cleethorpes (for my sins), I was born in Lincoln but the family seems to have come from Hitchin with offshoots in Nottinghamshire.

One of the oddest things I discovered when I was living in the US was that there was an area outside of Chicago called Lincolnshire and there were some African-American families with my last name.

[Craig380]

Heh, that's good.

What boggles my mind is that in Europe, the 'isopoint' is around the 10th century AD, which means that anyone alive in Europe at that time who had offspring is a direct ancestor of every person alive today who is of European descent.

The 'global isopoint,' when anyone alive on Earth who had offspring is a direct ancestor of everyone alive today, was around 1400BC.

[dirtydog]

That's pretty interesting, my name is originally from Lanark (which I knew) but mostly in Surrey now

[garynortheast]

I also discovered that North Ease farm is still there in Rodmell. The place has been farmed apparently for over 1000 years.

https://www.misterwhat.co.uk/company/946273-northease-farm-lewes

Northease Farm on Google maps street view (https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.8415958,0.0032575,3a,60.7y,256.9h,84.69t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s8ct0kM2_oi9zPsphWiw5JA!2e0!6sh ttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3D8ct0 kM2_oi9zPsphWiw5JA%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.g ps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D119.967255%26pitch% 3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656)

[Bibio]

thats pretty cool Gary.

just checked my surname (Bolland) and it says its from yorks and links. most common in wakefeild. no more information than that. i do know that i can trace my surname in Edinburgh back as far as my great x3 grandad but as far as i know its originally from from Belgium.