Does anyone have info on lewis?

Question

Does anyone have info on lewis?

Answer 1

sorry, no, thank you for asking

Answer 2

http://www.ancestry.com/learn/facts/defa...

will tell you the meaning.

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/...

has 896,375 entries for the surname. Some are duplicates.

http://genforum.genealogy.com/lewis/

is what we call a "Real" genealogy board. It has 18,000+ entries. The whole board is devoted to Lewis genealogy.

All of those links will work for your other surnames, too, although the URL for the "Smith" surname board has "smith" where the Lewis one is "lewis".

Answer 3

I found this for you, the origin of your surname. Your question isn't very clear.

Surname: Lewis

Recorded in over fifty different spellings from Lewis, Lois, Lowis and Loisi, to such as Ludovici, Lotze, Lohde, and Ludwikiewicz, throughout Europe this great and ancient name is generally accepted as being of pre 5th century Frankish origins. It derives from the personal name "Hludwig", composed of the elements "hlud", meaning loud or famous, plus "wig", battle. As such it was borne by the founder of the Frankish dynasty, who was recorded in the surviving chronicles of the Roman Empire as Ludovicus and Chlodovechus, the latter form becoming the French Clovis, Clouis, and later Louis. Lowis or Lewis is the Anglo-French form of the name, and Lowis le Briton was entered in the Red Book of the Exchequer", Essex, in 1166. The surname first appears on record at the beginning of the 13th Century (see below). William Lewys was noted as a witness in the 1267 Fines Court Rolls of Suffolk. Confusingly in Wales, Lewis was also used as an anglicization of the Welsh name Llywelyn, from "llyw", leader, and "eilyn", likeness. Llewelyn ap-Madoc, alias Lewis Rede, was archdeacon of Brecon, Wales, in 1437. One of the most natable bearers of the name was the American explorer Meriwether Lewis (1774 - 1807), who, with William Clark, led an overland expedition from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean in the early years of the 19th Century. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Robert Lowis, which was dated 1202, in the Pipe Rolls of Lancashire. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.

Hope this is what you meant.

Answer 4

My maternal grandmother was a Lewis.  It is an extremely common name.  In the U. S., the name could have derived from the Welsh Llewellyn or the French Huguenot Louis.  The name was changed to Lewis when they fled to English speaking countries.  

Not everyone with the same surname are necessarily related or shares ancestors.

With any surname, you don't trace the name you trace the ancestor with the name with documentation.  Lewis, you definitely need to trace the ancestor with the name, not the name itself.

My great great grandfather was Thomas Lewis born about 1812 in North Carolina.  You have no idea how many Thomas Lewis born in North Carolina around the time he was born.  His descendants eventually wound up in Texas.  Although one son remained in North Carolina and maybe a couple of daughters.

If you have any North Carolina Lewis send me an email through my avatar.