General Chat

My maiden name is RATTRAY and there`s a place in Scotland called Blairgowrie and Rattray. Rosalyn

My maiden name is FRESHWATER......but I haven't found any ancestors from the Isle of Wight.....yet!!!!! Dee x

My married Surname is Cornish. My maternal grandfather was a Fordham, and my gran, his wife, was a Fordham before she married a Fordham, Liz

Maiden name is Derry (as in N.Ireland) Married a Morgan (does Glamorgan count?)

I have a living example of people's surnames reflecting where they came from. My daughter's boyfriend is half Italian, his surname is Terminiello. His father (and generations before) was (were) brought up in the village/town of Termini. His Nona (grandmother), and other members of his family still live there. maggie

There is a town on the boarder of England & Scotland called Parton. Bev

I have several Derbyshire's in my family who lived in the village of Brailsford, Derbyshire and my own maiden name was Bradford - no family of my own there, but a few on my husband's side.

Go fun Deborah, isn't it? Love to know where Homer Simpson and Fred Flintstone live! Bob

There is a small village outside Carlisle called Wetheral. My Dad always claimed we were descended from the de Weatheralls of Carlisle. Lol. His Mum claimed descendancy from Hereward the Wake. God knows where she got that idea from. Jim

Ohhhhh Bob Clayton I put in my married name and got : You are unique. You are one with the angry Squirrel. Shout 'I am the unique. I am unified with the badger overlord.' People will run away. That's because they're jealous. JEALOUS.. then did my maiden name and got: You are as rare as a wombats wingnut LOL Good fun

My maiden name was Rosman, and you can find this name in a place in the USA. Don't know how it got there, but I've seen it on the map. My name came from Finland, so don't know how it got to the USA. No record of any emigration there, only Gt Britain. Sylvia xxx

my gggg grandfather was abandoned as a baby at Hampton Court and was given the surname Ewell as it was the nearest village, Karen

I have a village with the same name as mine- go through it every i go over to the lakes.

my surname is the same as the black country, also around where i live there is a street also the same as my surname, LOL.

It's unusual to find an old place that hasn't created a surname. Nearly all these will have UK origins. There are only 18 with the Yorkshire surname but thousands of Kents Check out this for surnames and first names http://www.yournotme(.)com/ Bob

My maiden name is also Hull, I am from Belfast.

My maiden name is PLAYFORD there is a village in suffolk and a city in Australia My grandmaother was PULHAM and there is a village in Norfolk called Pulham Market....although all my Pulhams i have found in suffolk .

There is a village called Lazenby near Redcar in Cleveland --used to be Yorkshire. Lazenby is my maiden name but there is no connection to my family that i know of although there were Lazenby's in Redcar.

My maiden name was Brinkley and there is a village with the same name.I think it is in Suffolk or Cambridge and every so often, all the Brinkleys meet there. I was sent a photo of the last meeting and there were over a hundred people there. It has its own website. Sylvia (now Whalley)in Perth WA

My maiden name is Horton...There is a place called Horton. E x