Eagleton

Eagleton
This name is of Anglo-Saxon origin, and is a locational surname deriving from either the place called "Eggleton" in the parish of Bishop's Frome in Herefordshire or from the place in Rutland called "Egleton", near Oakham. The place in Herefordshire is recorded as "Eglingtone" in 1212, and means "the settlement of Ecgwulf's people", derived from the Old English pre 7th Century personal name "Edgwulf", composed of the elements "ecg", edge, point (of a weapon), and "wulf", wolf, with the suffix "ing(as)", indicating "people of", and "tun", village, settlement. The place in Rutland is recorded as "Egiltun" and as "Egoluestun" in the Forest Charters of 1218, and means "Ecgwulf's settlement", derived from the same elements as "Eggleton". The modern surname can be found as Eggleton, Egleton, Egalton and Eagleton. The marriage of John Egalton and Rebecca James was recorded at St. Matthew's, Bethnal Green, London, on November 24th 1794. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Simon de Egilton, which was dated 1273, in the "Hundred Rolls of Rutland", during the reign of King Edward 1, known as "The Hammer of the Scots", 1272 - 1307. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.

Surnames reference. 2013.

Игры ⚽ Поможем сделать НИР

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Eagleton — ist der Name mehrerer Orte in den Vereinigten Staaten: Eagleton (Arkansas) Eagleton (Montana) Eagleton (North Carolina) Eagleton (Wisconsin) Eagleton Fields (Pennsylvania) Eagleton Village (Tennessee) Personen: Nathan Eagleton (* 1976),… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Eagleton — may be in reference to the following people, places or institutions.People: * Elizabeth Betty Eagleton (née Pendagast) is a fictional character on the ITV soap opera Emmerdale played by Paula Tilbrook. * Nathan Eagleton (b. 1978) an Australian… …   Wikipedia

  • Eagleton - The Golf Resort — (Kumbalgod,Индия) Категория отеля: Адрес: 30th Km, Bangalore Mysore Hi …   Каталог отелей

  • Eagleton Village — Eagleton Village, TN U.S. Census Designated Place in Tennessee Population (2000): 4883 Housing Units (2000): 2291 Land area (2000): 3.203091 sq. miles (8.295967 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000):… …   StarDict's U.S. Gazetteer Places

  • Eagleton Village, TN — U.S. Census Designated Place in Tennessee Population (2000): 4883 Housing Units (2000): 2291 Land area (2000): 3.203091 sq. miles (8.295967 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 3.203091 sq. miles… …   StarDict's U.S. Gazetteer Places

  • Eagleton Institute of Politics — The Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University was established in 1956 with an endowment from Florence Peshine Eagleton (1870 1953), and it focuses on state and national politics through education, and public service. Florence Peshine… …   Wikipedia

  • Eagleton Village, Tennessee — Infobox Settlement official name = Eagleton Village, Tennessee settlement type = CDP nickname = motto = imagesize = image caption = image mapsize = 250px map caption = Location of Eagleton Village, Tennessee mapsize1 = map caption1 = subdivision… …   Wikipedia

  • Eagleton, Terry —    b. 1943    Literary critic, playwright and academic    Terry Eagleton is a British Marxist literary critic and Oxford professor, enormously influential in the 1970s and 1980s. Eagleton developed his literary career with studies of Richardson’s …   Encyclopedia of contemporary British culture

  • Eagleton, Thomas Francis — ▪ 2008       American politician born Sept. 4, 1929 , St. Louis, Mo. died March 4, 2007 , Richmond Heights, Mo. agreed to run as Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern s running mate in the 1972 election, but he was asked to step down… …   Universalium

  • Eagleton, William — (1926 )    Over the past half century, Ambassador Eagleton has distinguished himself as one of the U.S. State Department s foremost experts on the Middle East. Until recently, he also was one of the State Department s very few Kurdish specialists …   Historical Dictionary of the Kurds

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”