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| Genealogical and historical information and links for anyone researching their ancestors in England and the British Isles |
Home ==> Surnames ==> Hill
<== Heighes
Howe ==>
| Surname origins | Location Derived from the location where an ancestor originated |
| Meaning |
'Dweller on the hill' |
| Geographic origins | i) From Yorkshire to Cornwall but mainly in Devon, Somerset and Gloucestershire. In 1853 the 25th most common name in England and Wales |
| Language | Old English |
| Sources | i)
Cottle, Basil, The Penguin Dictionary of Surnames (London:
Penguin UK, 1967) ii) Reaney & Wilson, A Dictionary of English Surnames (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1958) |
| My
line of the Hill family can be traced back to William Hill and Mary
Goss who lived in the Wiltshire village of Devizes
and married there in 1825. Two generations of the Hill family worked
as plasterers and later masons. Their granddaughter - my great grandmother - Rose Hannah Hill was born in 1874 in Norwood in Surrey, where a branch of the family had moved around the middle of the century. A dressmaker, she married Jehu Heighes in 1894 in Chiddingfold in the south of the county. They had 8 children. |
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