SURNAMES (with a bit of trivia thrown in)

A brief outline of their etymology.

FROGGATT
From the place name of Froggatt near Bakewell in Derbyshire. OE 'frogga', like a frog and 'cot', a shelter pre-7th century. First recorded in the 1540s in London, but is generally associated with Derbyshire. Is said to have been used as a nickname as being 'frog-like'. My first record 1465 in Mayfield, Staffordshire as a surname (as at November 2011).

JACKSON
A patronymic, son of Jack, a corruption of the name John and Jacques as is; James. Probably introduced by the returning Crusaders in the 12th century, the first recorded instances are in the mid-13th and early 14th centuries. Other forms of John include the celtic derivations Sean, Shaun, Ian, Ieuan, Ewen, Owen &c. Surnamedb.com suggests the origin is from the ancient Hebrew 'Yochanan' meaning "Jehovah has favoured me (with a son)", q.v.

KIRBY
Derived from the many place names throughout England which are themselves derived from the Northern Middle English, Old Norse and Old English forms meaning a church, such as 'kirk', 'cyrice' (7th century), and so on. First recorded was Godebold de Kirkebi in the records of the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds of 1121.

LOMAS
Introduced in Norman times by the De Veres of Oxford. Along with the variant Lomax, was said to have meant 'a pool' or 'of the pool'. In about the 16th century, the name came to be associated with the place name of Lumb near Rossendale, Lancashire, or, in fact, may be a derivation of it.
    Lomas Lomax Loomas Lummis Lummus
    Lumas, Lumax, Lomax 17th century (1602); Lummis 1674 - from a lost place Lomax, earlier Lumhalghs, the name of a district south of the Roch in Bury, Lancashire.
Ref. Dictionary of British Surnames, Reaney.
    Lomas Lomax
    L. 'Haughs (halh) by the pool' OE cf Lumb. Ref. Penguin Dictionary of Surnames, Cottle.

TREHEARN see The Name page of this site.

It is to be noted that each of the names described above have many variants and the meanings of these are often, but not always, the same .

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Trivia

Incidence of common Trehearn (& variant) forenames in these pages

at Nov. 2010

Using the Trehearn male line, the average size of the families is 5.13 children (averaged over 53 families).
The most children in a family is 12. The most in any family is that of Thomas Froggatt (195) b. 1802 who had 22 children by 2 wives. It has been said there were a total of 24 children but further evidence is required to support this.