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BOYES:
From "A Dictionary of Surnames" by Patrick Hanks & Flavia
Hodges, pub 1988 by Oxford Press (ISBN 0-19-211592-8)
Boyce:
1. English: topographic name for someone who lived by a
wood, from OF bois wood.
2. English: patr. from the ME nickname boy lad, servant (a
word of disputed origin, probably from a MLG form of OSax. bodo
messenger,servant, the dental being regularly lost between vowels). In
some cases it may derive from an OE personal name *Boia or a
Continental Gmc cogn. of this, both being of uncertain origin. Examples
such as Aluuinus Boi (Domesday Book) and Ivo le Boye (Lincs, 1232)
support the view that is was a byname of even an occupational name;
examples such as Stephanus filius Boie (Northumb, 1202) suggest that it
was in use as a personal name in the ME period, while the placename
Boyland in Norfolk is evidence for its use as an OE personal name.
3. Irish: Anglicized form of Gael. O Buadhaigh;
Vars. (of 1 & 2): Boy(e)s (chiefly Yorks.); Boice, Boise,
Boyse. (Of 2 only): Boyson
This line shows the families descended from Thomas
BOYES and Mary BEAGLEY, married on 16th January 1714 in
Bishopstoke in the County of Hampshire (Hants) England.
Shortly after the death of Mary in 1744 Thomas married Elizabeth
WHERRING. There is evidence that the earliest generations of the
Boyes line may have had an association with Upham - a few miles
from Bishopstoke.
Surname variations BOIS, BOYS, BOYCE, BOICE, BOYSE, and BOYES have been
used as they appear in primary records . If a surname has varied in
primary records all name variations are quoted. This gives rise to
entries of the form BOYES_(BOYCE) in my database.
Learn about -(These people are all related to me):
- George Stuart BOYES who played
cricket for Hampshire. There is also a photo (26k jpg) of him
and other members of the Hampshire team.
- Ken Boyes who played soccer for
Southampton. See photographs (11k jpg & 40k jpg ) of him in
the playing strip of Southampton Football Club and with the Pirelli
General Cricket team .
- Percy Alexander Bertram Boyes
Awarded the British Empire Medal for his actions as a messenger during
the first weeks bombing of Southampton in WWII.
- See An area of Freemantle in Southampton
(50k gif map plus text) where some of my ancestors lived.
- My Boyes connection with Southampton and
India Ancestors of mine have lived and worked in India.
- Visit the GenForum
Boyes Surname Site where people have posted queries about the Boyes
name from all over the world.
BULL
My line is descended from Jacob BULL, who was
christened on the 15th October 1795 in Beaulieu, Hants and his wife Harriett
PRINCE, who was also born in Beaulieu in 1801. They were married in
Beaulieu Parish Church on the 30th of January 1820.
There is also a GenForum Bull
Surname Site. You can also Search
the BULL Archives on RootsWeb
MUSGRAVE
The Musgrave Crest:
Arms: Azure (blue), six annulets or (gold) three, two and one
Crest: Two Arms in armour, the hands gauntleted proper, grasping
an annulet or
(gold)
Motto: Sans Changer - Without Changing
The seat of the Musgrave name is EdenHall in Cumbria and records show
that the name has
been in this area since ~1000AD. It is thought that the Musgrave line
is descended from a
companion of William the Conqueror (William I) and that this person
came with him to
England in 1066 or shortly after this date from Normandy. The name does
not appear in the
Roll of Battle Abbey but Musegros does, along with six or seven
hundred other
Norman knights present at the Battle of Hastings. It is thought that
the names Musegros
and Musgrave are one in the same. The following year the Musgrave name
appears in
Westmoreland [sic.]where Peter de Musgrave, the first to be
known by it gave his
name to Great and Little Musgrave.
My Musgrave's are from Leeds in Yorkshire and have been situated there
since the 1400's. Thomas Musgrave was born
in about 1450 in Wortley near Leeds and it
can be shown that by following the line backwards from him in my
database there is a link
up with the earliest line in Westmorland and Cumbria
In the 1600 - 1800's my Musgrave's were in the Wool & Cloth dyeing
profession and seem
to have lived in the Mill Hill and HillhouseBanks areas.One of them - William
MUSGRAVE
(1810-1874) joined the Army (16th Queens Lancers) in about 1832 and
went to India. William
remained there until his death. You can read about his life in India by
clicking here.
Other people, not in my direct line but also descended from the
earliest Musgraves
recorded are still living in Leeds today. So far I have traced one
branch forward to the
1940's and it seems logical that others are also still in the area.
There is also a GenForum
Musgrave Site
containing postings by other people interested in the name.
NEAME
The Neame Crest:
Arms: Quarterly per fess raguly erminois and azure (blue),
two barrulets between
four lions heads erased all counterchanged.
Crest: In front of a staff raguly fessways azure(blue), a
demi-heraldic antelope
argent (silver)armed or (gold), gorged with the collar gemel, also
azure and pierced
through the neck with an arrow in bend sinister proper
Motto:Ne a Meta oculos Advertum
From "A Dictionary of British Surnames" by PH Reaney - 2nd Ed. 1976.
Neam,
Neame:OE eame, "Uncle" with the initial N - due to misdivision of
syllable.
v. also EAMES. But Fr nain - dwarf is probably also a source of the
name.
My Neame line originally came from Kent in England and can be traced in
Burkes Landed
Gentry (1952 Ed. pages 1863-1867).This reference shows the descendants
of Thomas Neame of Woodnesborough, Kent who
lived there in the 1400's.
Thomas had three sons, two of whom (Roger and John) are the ancestors
of the two main
lines portrayed in my pages. I have no information on the third son
Henry who was a
weaver. An ancestor of mine, Austin Clarke NEAME was born
in Littleborne,
Kent on 18 July 1810. He is a descendent of Roger Neame. By 1837 he was
in India and had
married in Calcutta Cathedral. On 4th March 1872 one of his children - John
Austin
Cyrus Clarke NEAME born 1840, married Alice Lambert MUSGRAVE,
the daughter of
William Musgrave mentioned above.
As with some other lines I am interested in, my Neame's stayed in India
until it's
Independance.Today however, the name can be found in New Zealand,
England, Canada,
India, Australia and South Africa.
ROSE
My earliest ROSE ancestor is John Rose
who seems to have been born in Inverness,Scotland in about 1838. At
some point he joined the 74th Highland Regiment and went to India.
While there he was involved in the "Indian Mutiny" of 1858 - he was
part of the Siege of Shoreapore and slightly wounded in the left leg.
The capture of Shorapore happened on the 8th of February 1858."Amongst
the small number of British units there was a number of companies of
the 74th Highlanders, of those men was a certain:- Regt. Number 8,
Private John Rose, Later transferred to Madras Artillery. His
regimental number signifies that he enlisted at the end of 1856 or
beginning of 1857." (supplied by Kevin Asplin, Compiler of: -
'Indian Mutiny Medal Roll 1857-59, British Forces' Hampshire,UK)
SWASBROOK
The name of Swasbrook is EXTREMELY rare and appears (in my
opinion) to have derived from a name such as SWARBRICK, SWARSBRICK or
SWARBROOK(E). I have a separate database on The
Swasbrook Name.
In the world today I have discovered only two distinct lines, the other
being represented by a family in Birmingham, England. From
investigations carried out using parish and St Catherine's House
records it appears that the vast majority of people with this name in
the past were living in the Counties of Lancashire and Warwickshire in
England. A single mention of the name has been found in Hampshire
(Portsmouth) but by far the highest concentration in the period
1800-1880 occur in Manchester and Birmingham.
Even so, to date I have only discovered 148 people possessing the name
- 85 of those in my own line.
To read a little about the life of Lewis Swasbrook click here
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