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[[Descendants of William RODGER (c1770)]] | [[Descendants of William RODGER (c1770)]] | ||
Scottish, English, North German, French, and Catalan: from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements ''hrod'' ‘renown’ +''gar'', ''ger'' ‘spear’, ‘lance’, which was introduced into England by the Normans in the form Rog(i)er. The cognate Old Norse Hróðgeirr was a reinforcing influence in Normandy. | '''Meaning of the surname RODGER''': Scottish, English, North German, French, and Catalan: from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements ''hrod'' ‘renown’ +''gar'', ''ger'' ‘spear’, ‘lance’, which was introduced into England by the Normans in the form Rog(i)er. The cognate Old Norse Hróðgeirr was a reinforcing influence in Normandy. | ||
Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac ''Ruaidhrí''. | Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac ''Ruaidhrí''. | ||
[[Descendants of Adam HORROCKS (1665)]] | [[Descendants of Adam HORROCKS (1665)]] | ||
English (chiefly Lancashire): habitational name from Great or Little Horrocks in Greater Manchester, so named from the plural of the dialect term ''hurrock'' ‘heaped-up pile of loose stones or rubbish’ (of uncertain origin). | '''Meaning of the surname HORROCKS''': English (chiefly Lancashire): habitational name from Great or Little Horrocks in Greater Manchester, so named from the plural of the dialect term ''hurrock'' ‘heaped-up pile of loose stones or rubbish’ (of uncertain origin). | ||
== Family Newletters == | == Family Newletters == | ||
[[Singleton Family Newletters]] | [[Singleton Family Newletters]] | ||
Revision as of 19:19, 4 June 2009
Welcome to Roots Unearthed!
This website is dedicated to the FORREST family and related lines.
The information is presented in two formats:
- Ancestry Tree - This shows all the ancestors of a particular person
- Descendancy Tree - This shows all the descendants of a particular person (however follows the male lines)
Ancestry Trees
Ancestors of Joshua FORREST (2007)
Descendancy Trees
Descendants of William FORREST (c1690)
Meaning of the surname FORREST: Topographic name for someone who lived in or near a royal forest, or a metonymic occupational name for a keeper or worker in one. Middle English forest was not, as today, a near-synonym of wood, but referred specifically to a large area of woodland reserved by law for the purposes of hunting by the king and his nobles. The same applied to the European cognates, both Germanic and Romance. The English word is from Old French forest, Late Latin forestis (silva). This is generally taken to be a derivative of foris ‘outside’; the reference was probably to woods lying outside a habitation. On the other hand, Middle High German for(e)st has been held to be a derivative of Old High German foraha ‘fir’, with the addition of a collective suffix.
Descendants of William RODGER (c1770)
Meaning of the surname RODGER: Scottish, English, North German, French, and Catalan: from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements hrod ‘renown’ +gar, ger ‘spear’, ‘lance’, which was introduced into England by the Normans in the form Rog(i)er. The cognate Old Norse Hróðgeirr was a reinforcing influence in Normandy. Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Ruaidhrí.
Descendants of Adam HORROCKS (1665)
Meaning of the surname HORROCKS: English (chiefly Lancashire): habitational name from Great or Little Horrocks in Greater Manchester, so named from the plural of the dialect term hurrock ‘heaped-up pile of loose stones or rubbish’ (of uncertain origin).
