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Surnames, their origin and their meaning

Many surnames are associated with the place/locality of where the family lived and in those cases the location is noted as the meaning.
Many surnames are associated with the occupation of the person given the name.

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Surname		Origin	Meaning
Tabor		Locality	a city in Bohemia
Taggart		Gaelic	Tagair to plead a cause, claim as a right, to reason, to debate
Taite		Gaelic	Pleasure, delight
Talbot			mastiff
Tan		Chinese	the state of Tan during the Zhou dynasty
Tappan		Welsh	The top of the hanging rock
Tasker			thrasher
Tate		Gaelic	Pleasure, delight
Tattersall		Locality	town of Tattersall, in Lincolnshire, England
Taylor			trade
Teddington		Locality	A place on the Thames, so called from the tide ending there, before the building of London bridge, tide-ending town
Teesdale		Locality	The dale on the Tees, a river of England
Tefft		Locality	A piece of ground where there has been a house
Teft		Locality	A piece of ground where there has been a house.
Telfair		Italian	French, tailler, to cut, and fer, iron
Telford		Locality	The narrow or straightened pass or way
Temes		Locality	Thamesis, the Thames, so called from the meeting together of the rivers Tame and Isis, the chief river of Britain
Temple			the manor of Temple, in Wellesborough, Leicestershire
Tenbrook		Dutch	Ten, at, and broek, a brook, a stream, or marsh
Teneyck		Dutch	Ten oaks
Tennant			Tenant, a person holding lands under another
Tennison			Tenesone, a place in Gottespunt or Cazdee, in Switzerland
Tennyson			Tenesone, a place in Gottespunt or Cazdee, in Switzerland
Terril		Locality	The little tower
Terwilliger		Dutch	Der Willikeur, a by-law, a statute
Tew		Welsh	Fat, a corpulent person
Theobald		Saxon	powerful or bold over the people
Thomas		Hebrew	twin
Thomlin			son of Thomas
Thomlinson			son of Thomas
Thompson			son of Thomas
Thoms			Thomas
Thomson			son of Thomas
Thorn		Locality	town in England
Thorpe			village
Thrasher			One who thrashes grain
Throckmorton			Rock-moor-town, a town on a rock in a moor, in the vale of Evesham, Fladbury, Warwickshire, England
Thurston		Locality	The hill or town where the Saxon god Thor was worshiped by the Anglo-Saxons
Thwaite		Locality	A piece of ground cleared of wood, from the Anglo-Saxon thweotan
Thwayte		Locality	A piece of ground cleared of wood, from the Anglo-Saxon thweotan
Tibbits		French	Theobald powerful or bold over the people
Tice		Dutch	abbreviation of Matthias
Tichbourne			a person settled at the head of a fountain of the river Itchen. The river Itchen is in Southampton county, England
Tichenor		Locality	At Itchenor, T Itchenor, from the river Itchen; the name of a village in Sussex, England.
Tiernay		Gaelic	Tighearna, a lord, a judge, a landed proprietor
Tiffany			maker or vender of silk
Till		Locality	a river in England
Tillinghast		Locality	A place where auctions are held
Tilly		Locality	A town of France
Tilman			One who works a farm
Tilmont		Locality	A town in Brabant, Netherlands
Tilton		Locality	a village in England
Ting		Locality	place where courts were held
Tirrel		Locality	The little tower
Toby		Welsh	Thomas
Todd		Scottish	fox
Tollmache		Norman-French	Tolling of the bell
Tolman			A collector of toll
Torres		Spanish-Portuguese	plural of torre tower
Torry		Locality	Gaelic, a conical hill or mountain
Toucey		Locality	town of Toucey in the province of Champagne, France
Tournay		Locality	a town in Artois, France
Towers			conical hills, and to round buildings erected for strength or security
Towner			A dweller in a town
Townsend		Locality	One who lived at the end of the town
Tracey		Locality	A village in the Department of Oise, France
Tracy		Locality	A village in the Department of Oise, France
Traille		Gaelic	A servant, sloven, slave
Train		Gaelic	Treun, brave, valiant, bold
Trainer		Gaelic	Treunmhor, very brave
Traineur		Gaelic	straggler
Trainor			Treunmhor, very brave
Trelawney		Cornish-British	open town near the water
Tremaine		Cornish-British	town on the shore or sea-coast
Trenor		Gaelic	Treunmhor, very brave
Trevelyan		Cornish-British	Trevellyan, the town of the mill
Trevor		Cornish-British	Trevear, the great town
Tripp			According to tradition, this name was given to Lord Howard's fifth son, at the siege of Boulogne. King Henry V. being there, asked how they took the town and castle. Howard answered, I trippd up the walls. Saith his majesty, Tripp shall be thy name, and no longer Howard
Trotter		French	Trotteur, a person always on the trot; a rambler
Troublefield		Locality	Norman name Tuberville
Trowbridge		Locality	A town in England. The name signifies through the bridge

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