name help

[yummy-mummy-amy]

hi,

i'm hoping someone maybe able to help me. I have recently been informed that my eldest son's name is actually a surname as well as 1st name, now I know the other 2s names are also surnames. here's where i'm after help, does anyone have any information on the following names as surnames:

JARRED
MACKENZIE
BLAKE

I'm hoping to collect information, facts and any information including road signs/place names on maps etc and making them a book as a special christmas present. If anyone has any information or can send me to where I can get it as cheaply as possible i would be very grateful.


(If this is in wrong place i'm sorry and please can it be moved to right place. thanks.)

[Jill on the A272]

Blake's cottage in Sussex has just come on the market (as in William Blake artist & poet who wrote "Jerusalem")

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/jul/17/william-blake-cottage-for-sale

and there are some nice Mackenzie tartans if you google

[yummy-mummy-amy]

thank you. anything that i can use gratefully received. x

[yummy-mummy-amy]

no idea why posted twice

[Caroline]

... and I can try to get you pictures of the cottage as it's not far from me!!

P.S I think I can do a lot better than that: http://thebigblakeproject.org.uk/abd...PG?i=423570023 . The Blake Trail is finally up and running - http://thebigblakeproject.org.uk/abo...g-blake-trail/.

Dog plus camera plus car plus daughter ... when do you need it?

http://thebigblakeproject.org.uk/abd/wp-content/gallery/blaketraillaunch-1/chris-price-map-marked.JPG?i=423570023

[Anne in Carlisle]

Just had a quick look at the 1911 census and there do seem to be plenty of people with the surname Jarred. Quite a lot of them seem to live in Norfolk.
Anne

[grumpy]

Around Bridgewater in Somerset there is a Blake museum named after Admiral Blake, Cromwells admiral. One of my rellies married his sister back in the 1600's. There

is stacks of material on line about it.

[yummy-mummy-amy]

thank you for all this. i'm hoping if i can get enough info on each of them to make them a book for christmas, so would need pics/info all sorted by november so i have time for it to be published and printed and sent to me, the 2 sites i'm looking at say about 2-3weeks.

i've gathered quite alot of info so far on Jarred, not really done much on the other 2 yet. I could pay to get the surname info from the house of names, but not sure if i should or not, but i suppose it would give me the A4 doc to give to them as well.

[yummy-mummy-amy]

....

[Caroline]

A good time to ask for this help with Blake!!

http://www.bognor.co.uk/news/local/festival-will-be-packed-with-fun-1-6304303

Also - had you thought about Quentin Blake? Illustrator ..... http://www.quentinblake.com/index.php/news/exhibitions ... that looks like a good excuse to visit my brother.

http://www.quentinblake.com/index.php/about-drawing/quentin-in-action

http://www.quentinblake.com/

[Jill on the A272]

Then there's Blake's 7 the scifi tv series...a bit retro!

[yummy-mummy-amy]

thank you, everyone said he was named after that but i was only little when it was on.

[DoctorGeoff]

Watch out for the surname that was written down "as heard" not "as spelled".
Then watch out for immigrants from the Continent where letters are pronounced differently.
Then, so many surnames are adapted from first names, modified as above.
I have met Grey as a given name and a family name; but not Gray (family only).
Anders is a given name, and the root of Anderson, but I have met this as a family name.
Travis can be both given and family.
son/sohn and dottir are common Scandinavian endings - if the practice of creating a family name out of a parent's given name is followed.
Otherwise, a given name was typically (but not always) taken from a trade (Fletcher, Miller, Weaver, etc).
Go back far enough, and there were no family names. After that, it was hard to differentiate between people with the same given name and family name. Typically, you can find "Fred Smith the older" and "Fred Smith the younger" in the same village. I have this (not Smith of course) and a case of one generation being spelled phonetically, and (on the old Family Search website) two families being merged because both husbands and both wives had the same names. It was obviously wrong as there were children born long after the father died. It took a while to unscramble that one - only to find that the two husbands were actually cousins, sharing the same given and family names.
Fascinating things, names.

Geoff

[Gwyn in Kent]

Are you only interested in UK?

An area of New Zealand is named Mackenzie country......quite a bit online re. features there.

Gwyn

[yummy-mummy-amy]

hi,

no not just the uk, i am going to put in as much info as i can including places and business that are called their name, famous people (or not as i dont recognise most of them!), signs with their name in and such.