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Baxendale - Burnett - Daly - Graham - Gurney - Maden - Schofield - Simpson - Walmsley

Meaning: English (Lancashire): habitational name, probably an altered form of Baxenden, a place near Accrington, which is named with an unattested Old English word bæcstan ‘bakestone’ (a flat stone on which bread was baked) + denu ‘valley’. Middle English dale was sometimes substituted for Old English denu in northern place names.

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People : Harold Baxendale - James Arthur Baxendale - James Baxendale - John Arthur Baxendale

Meaning: Scottish and English: descriptive nickname from Old French burnete, a diminutive of brun ‘brown’

English, Scottish, and Irish: generally a nickname referring to the color of the hair or complexion, Middle English br(o)un, from Old English brun or Old French brun. This word is occasionally found in Old English and Old Norse as a personal name or byname. Brun- was also a Germanic name-forming element. Some instances of Old English Brun as a personal name may therefore be short forms of compound names such as Brungar, Brunwine, etc. As a Scottish and Irish name, it sometimes represents a translation of Gaelic Donn. As an American family name, it has absorbed numerous surnames from other languages with the same meaning

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Daly

Meaning: Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Dálaigh ‘descendant of Dálach’, a personal name based on dál (modern dáil) ‘meeting’, ‘assembly’.

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Graham

Meaning: Scottish and English: habitational name from Grantham in Lincolnshire, recorded in Domesday Book as Graham (as well as Grantham, Grandham, and Granham).

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Gurney

Meaning: English (of Norman origin): habitational name from any of various places in France named Gournay, notably Gournay-en-Brai in Seine-Maritime.

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Maden

Meaning: English (Lancashire): variant of Irish Madden. Irish (Galway): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Madáin ‘descendant of Madán’, a reduced form of Madadhán, from madadh ‘dog’

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People : Henry Maden

Schofield

Meaning: English (mainly northern): habitational name from any of various minor places, in Lancashire and elsewhere, named from Middle English sc(h)ole ‘hut’ + feld ‘pasture’, ‘open country’.

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Simpson

Meaning: Scottish and northern English: patronymic from Sim.

English: habitational name from any of three places in Devon, so named from Old English personal name Sigewine + tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’

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Walmsley

Meaning: English: habitational name from Walmersley in Greater Manchester, which according to Ekwall is named from Old English wald ‘forest’ + mere ‘lake’ or (ge)m?re ‘boundary’ + leah ‘woodland clearing’. However, it is perhaps more plausibly from the genitive case of an Old English personal name Walhm?r, meaning ‘foreign-famous’, or Waldm?r ‘rule-famous’ + Old English leah.

History: Earliest Walmsley's in Recorded History - Earliest Walmsley's in Ireland

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