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English : habitational name from places in Northumbria and Wiltshire, named in Old English as ‘mill stream’ (see Milburn).
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English : habitational name for someone from either of two places called Mildenhall, in Suffolk and Wiltshire. The place in Suffolk may have been named in Old English as ‘middle nook of land’, from middel + halh, or it may be of the same origin as the Wiltshire place name, ‘Milda’s nook of land’, from an unattested Old English personal name + halh. The spelling Mendenhall does not appear in English sources, and this may be a U.S. variant.
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English (Somerset and Wiltshire) : possibly a derivative of Middle English kiken ‘to watch’, ‘to spy’. Compare Kicker.German : variant of Keck.Dutch : probably a nickname, from a derivative of kikken ‘to kick’.
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English : regional name from the county of Wiltshire in southwest central England, which gets its name from Wilton (once the county’s principal town) + Old English scīr ‘district’, ‘administrative division’.
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English (Wiltshire and Cambridgeshire) : unexplained.
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English (Hampshire, Dorset, and Wiltshire)
English (Hampshire, Dorset, and Wiltshire) : topographic name for someone who lived at the top of a hill or on a piece of raised ground, from Middle English heyt ‘summit’, ‘height’ + the agent suffix -er.
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English (Somerset and Wiltshire) : unexplained.
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English (Wiltshire and Gloucestershire) : unexplained.Possibly an Americanized spelling of German Diegel or Swiss Digel, from a short form of a Germanic personal name formed with þeudo- ‘people’, ‘tribe’.
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English : from the Norman French personal name Mahieu, a variant of Mathieu (see Matthew).Anglicized form of French Mailloux.Thomas Mayhew (1593–1682) came to Medford, MA, from Tisbury, Wiltshire, England, about 1632, and subsequently moved to Watertown, MA. In 1642 he established a settlement on Martha’s Vineyard, with his son Thomas, who was the first English missionary to the Indians of New England.
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English (Somerset, Wiltshire, Dorset) : unexplained.
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English (Wiltshire)
English (Wiltshire) : unexplained. Compare Racy, Racey, Rasey.
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English (Hampshire, Dorset, and Wiltshire)
English (Hampshire, Dorset, and Wiltshire) : unexplained. According to MacLysaght this name, which is also found in Ireland, is akin to Usher (compare Lusher).Probably an Americanized spelling of German Lüsch (see Lusch).
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English (Gloucester, Somerset, and Wiltshire)
English (Gloucester, Somerset, and Wiltshire) : unexplained.German : habitational name from either of two places called Baben, in Silesia and Brandenburg.
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English : unexplained.John Mifflin (born 1640) came to Delaware from Warminster, Wiltshire, England, in the 1670s. He is probably the same person as the John Mifflin, a Quaker, who built his home, ‘Fountain Green’, in Fairmont Park, Philadelphia, in 1679. His fourth-generation descendant Thomas Mifflin (1744–1800) was a member of the Continental Congress, a revolutionary soldier, and governor of PA.
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English (Wiltshire)
English (Wiltshire) : topographic name for someone who lived by a well dedicated to St. Bride or by a stream frequented by birds (Old English bridd).
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English (chiefly Somerset and Wiltshire)
English (chiefly Somerset and Wiltshire) : metronymic from the medieval female personal name Mag(ge), a pet form of Margaret (see Margeson).
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English (Wiltshire and Gloucestershire)
English (Wiltshire and Gloucestershire) : nickname for someone thought to resemble a bird, from Old French oisel ‘bird’.
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English (Wiltshire) : occupational name for a servant employed by a (young) woman or by nuns at a convent, from Middle English maid(en) + man. For the excrescent -t, compare Diamond.
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English (chiefly Wiltshire and Somerset)
English (chiefly Wiltshire and Somerset) : variant spelling of Nash 1.
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English and Irish : variant of Mayhew.Variant of French Mailhot.A William Mayo born in Wiltshire, England, c. 1684 was a surveyor who settled in VA about 1623 and helped survey the VA-NC boundary and found Richmond and Petersburg, VA. [newpara]The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, was founded by William Worrall Mayo (1819–1911), who immigrated to the U.S. from England, in 1845, and his sons, all gifted and innovative physicians and surgeons.
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A portion of Great Britain originally under the supervision of an earl; a territorial division, usually identical with a county, but sometimes limited to a smaller district; as, Wiltshire, Yorkshire, Richmondshire, Hallamshire.