Do you have a family history connection to Norfolk? These surnames have their origins in the Anglian county, so if they show up in your family tree, they could indicate your Norfolk heritage:
1. CURSON
This habitational name comes from Notre-Dame-de-Courson, a former commune in Normandy, north-west France.
2. DACK
Dack was a nickname for a person who had a gait like a duck when they walked.
3. EKE
This surname derives from the Old Norse word for an oak tree.
4. FUTTER
This is first recorded as the personal name ‘Fulcher’ in the Domesday Book.
5. HAYLETT
The 1881 census districts of Downham Market, Great Yarmouth and Winterton were all Haylett hotspots.
6. LEEDER
This was an occupational name for a man who worked as a drover or driver of a cart.
7. PLATTEN
Platten was an occupational name for a maker of plates for armour.
8. RUMP
There are thought to be two potential origins for Rump – a shortened form of the personal name ‘Humphrey’, and a medieval nickname for someone pear-shaped.
9. SHREEVE
This is another occupational name, this time for a sheriff.
10. WARNES
Nearly 40 per cent of the Warnes recorded in 1891 were living in Norfolk.
