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English (mainly Lancashire)
English (mainly Lancashire) : habitational name from any of the various places named Hatton, from Old English hǣð ‘heathland’, ‘heather’ (see Heath) + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. Examples of the place name are found in Cheshire, Derbyshire, Lincolnshire, West London, Shropshire, Staffordshire, and Warwickshire.French : from the Old French oblique case of the Germanic personal name Hado, Hatto, a short form of various compound names beginning with hadu ‘strife’.Irish (Ulster) and Scottish : shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Giolla Chatáin (Irish), Mac Gille Chatain (Scottish) (see McHatton).Scottish : habitational name, perhaps in part of English origin (see 1), but perhaps also from a Scottish place name.
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American, Anglo, Australian, British, Chinese, Christian, Danish, Dutch, English, German, Indian, Irish
Flower Name; Flowering Shrub; Named After the Plant Heather; Which are a Variety of Small Shrubs with Pink or White Flowers which Commonly Grow in Rocky Areas
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English (chiefly West Midlands)
English (chiefly West Midlands) : habitational name from either of two places named Hadley, in Worcestershire and Shropshire, or from either of two places named Hadleigh, in Essex and Suffolk. The first is named from the Old English personal name Hadda + lēah ‘wood’, ‘(woodland) clearing’; the other three are from Old English hǣð ‘heathland’, ‘heather’ + lēah.
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English : topographic name for someone who lived on a heath (Middle English hethe, Old English hǣð) or a habitational name from any of the numerous places, for example in Bedfordshire, Derbyshire, Herefordshire, Shropshire, and West Yorkshire, named with this word. The same word also denoted heather, the characteristic plant of heathland areas. This surname has also been established in Dublin since the late 16th century.
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English : variant spelling of Ling 1.Norwegian : habitational name from any of several farmsteads in western Norway named with lyng ‘heather’, either on its own, or with the addition of vin ‘meadow’.Dutch (de Linge) and North German : habitational name from a place named with Old Low German linge ‘strip of land or water’, or possibly with the river name Linge (this river flows through the Betuwe). See also Lingen.Possibly French, from a metonymic occupational name from linge ‘linen goods’, but there is no evidence of surname in North America.
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English (mainly East Anglia)
English (mainly East Anglia) : habitational name from Lyng in Norfolk, so named from Old English hlinc ‘hillside’, or from either of two places in Norfolk and Lincolnshire named Ling, from Old Norse lyng ‘ling’, ‘heather’. There is also a Lyng in Somerset, so named from Old English lengen ‘long place’.German : variant of Link.Chinese : from a word meaning ‘ice’. In ancient times, the imperial palace was able to enjoy ice in the summer by storing winter ice in a cellar, entrusting its care to an official called the iceman. This post was once filled during the Zhou dynasty (1122–221 bc) by a descendant of Kang Shu, the eighth son of Wen Wang, who had been granted the state of Wei soon after the establishment of the Zhou dynasty. Descendants of this particular iceman adopted the word for ice, ling, as their surname.
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English : habitational name from any of various places, for example in Hampshire, Surrey, Worcestershire, and West Yorkshire, so called from Old English hǣð ‘heathland’, ‘heather’ + lēah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’.English : variant spelling of Hedley.
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English
English name derived from the plant name, HEATHER means "heather."
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English (mainly Lancashire)
English (mainly Lancashire) : habitational name from any of several places named Halton, usually from Old English h(e)alh ‘nook’, ‘hollow’ + tÅ«n ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. Halton in Cheshire, however, is possibly named from an Old English hÄthel ‘heathery place’ + tÅ«n, and Halton in Northumberland from an Old English hÄw ‘look out’ + hyll ‘hill’ + tÅ«n.Irish : altered form of O’Haltahan, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hUltacháin ‘descendant of Ultachán’, a diminutive of Ultach ‘Ulsterman’. This is a rare Fermanagh surname, which is sometimes Anglicized as Nolan.Most English bearers of this name trace their descent from William de Halton, who was living at Halton, Lancashire, in 1346.
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English American
A flowering evergreen plant that thrives on peaty barren lands as in Scotland. Heather.
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English (northern border counties)
English (northern border counties) : habitational name from a place so named in Northumberland, possibly from Old English hēahdēor ‘stag’, ‘deer’ or hǣddre ‘heather’ + -ing ‘characterized by’ + tūn ‘farmstead’, ‘settlement’. This surname has been established in Ireland since the 16th century.
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English (mainly Yorkshire and central England)
English (mainly Yorkshire and central England) : habitational name from any of the various places named Hatfield, for example in Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Hertfordshire, and Essex, from Old English hǣð ‘heathland’, ‘heather’ + feld ‘pasture’, ‘open country’.
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Christian & English(British/American/Australian)
Flowering Heather
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English
English : variant spelling of Hetherington.
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English
English : topographic name, a variant of Heath with the addition of the habitational suffix -er. This surname is widespread in southern England, and also well established in Ireland.
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English
English : habitational name from various places such as Headon, Nottinghamshire, Hedon in East Yorkshire, and Heddon on the Wall and Black Heddon. Northumberland. The first is probably named from Old English hēah ‘high’ + dūn ‘hill’; the others have the same second element, combined with Old English hǣþ ‘heath’, ‘heather’.North German (Frisian) : variant of Hadden.
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English
English : of uncertain origin, possibly a variant of Hayter or Heather.
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English
English : habitational name from any of various places called Heathcote, for example in Derbyshire and Warwickshire, from Old English hǣð ‘heathland’, ‘heather’ + cot ‘cottage’, ‘dwelling’.
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English and Scottish
English and Scottish : habitational name from places in County Durham and Northumberland, so named from Old English hǣð ‘heathland’, ‘heather’ + lēah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’.English and Scottish : variant spelling of Headley.
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English
English : habitational name from Down Hatherley and Up Hatherley in Gloucestershire, or from Hatherleigh in Devon, all named from Old English haguþorn ‘hawthorn’ + lēah ‘(woodland) clearing’.
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a.
Heathy; abounding in heather; of the nature of heath.
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Heath.
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Heather; heath.
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A low shrub (Erica, / Calluna, vulgaris), with minute evergreen leaves, and handsome clusters of pink flowers. It is used in Great Britain for brooms, thatch, beds for the poor, and for heating ovens. It is also called heather, and ling.
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Also, any species of the genus Erica, of which several are European, and many more are South African, some of great beauty. See Illust. of Heather.
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Heather (Calluna vulgaris).
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heathy land; land full of heather; moorish or watery land.