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funkadelic
Joined: 13 Mar 2006
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Mine is WELLINGTON. We aren't sure whether its from "the duke of wellington", or whether its because for a time in england they liked to name families after the the job the father did... "wellington boot maker"... so we aren't sure.
But we are currently doing our family tree... so I hope we find it out 
But I'm jealous now - cos everyone else has really beautiful and cool unusual surnams.. i wish mine wasnt so embarassing 
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Samiroquai
Joined: 13 Jul 2005
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Location: North Somerset and Manchester, both in England
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| Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 22:46 |
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Nothing embarrassing about it. There's a village in Somerset called Wellington (nothing to do with the Duke), so it might be related to that in some way. I doubt it comes from the occupation of one of your ancestors because I'd have thought the term 'wellington boots' isn't a very old one. I'd certainly be very surprised if it predates the Iron Duke. Good luck finding out, though!
Sam
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funkadelic
Joined: 13 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 11:45 |
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thank you!
so far we have traced the name back to 1532 - but its getting quite hard now because they didn't keep documents for births and deaths back then.
so yeah - it probably does pre-dat most of what i said... they were just speculations about what it was before we did this family tree... now we aren't so sure and we may never find out - so i spose we will just have to keep the name going for a few more hundred years  
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the_doesman
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Joined: 11 Feb 2002
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Location: the Netherlands
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| Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 20:28 |
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my last name is 'van der Does' and I have no idea where it comes from
I do know that there were some important people with that last name, at least important enough to name streets after them.
There's also a street in the town where I was born with that name and I would very much like to live there (large villa's/mansions)
There are at least not that many people in Holland with that name.
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Little H - KSA
Joined: 05 Jan 2004
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Location: Too far west of where heaven lies
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| Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 23:53 |
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I was born with the family name of Jones.
Jones is a very common Welsh name, Welsh meaning from the small country of Wales that is located mid west of England in the British Isles. However, it is one of the most commonest names of English people.
My mother is Irish, her maiden name is Kelly - please go back and read Samiroquai's post on this thread about the glorious name of Kelly.
Now let me complicate things . . .
I married a foreign national and I changed my name to facilitate an expected existence in a foreign country with ease, so I adopted his family's name of Al-Mohanna.
Islamic law decrees that a woman cannot change her name to take that of her husband's when she marries. The Saudi authorities refused to give me nationality until I changed my name. I refused to accept a random dishing out of names, and I went to great lengths to retain most of my name and according to Islam law. I did have to change the family name, and I changed it to Al-Mohammed.
What you will be able to muse with me is that I don't have two bank cards alike, every account I have and it's credit and debit cards have different spellings. It was a gargantuan feat to match all my paper work, ID papers and passports. And it all means nothing - I'm still Little H to my Daddy, but I answer simply to the name of Mama.
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ophone
Joined: 31 May 2005
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Location: Lëtzebuerg
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| Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 23:53 |
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Mine is SAX! Now you understand why my pseudonyme here is ophone. 
The origin of my name has surely a connection to the German region of Saxony. Although I guess my name has a French touch, because Saxony is spelled Sachsen in German, Saxe in French.
The most popular man who used to have the same last name than me was Adolphe Sax from Dinant/Belgium, the inventor of the saxophone (you know, one of these instruments Jamiroquai should reintegrate again into their music, don't you think?  )
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