Last name: Tyreman. Background?

Question

I was wondering if anyone had any information on the last name "Tyreman"? I've been told it might be Jewish (or Hebrew, for those who get offended) but nobody in my family is Jewish or celebrates anything in Jewish matter.

If anyone knows anything about it or would like to do some research, that'd be swell.

Thanks,

_____ Tyreman.

Answer 1

DOESN'T LOOK LIKE IT HAS JEWISH ROOTS, BUT ENGLISH OR FRENCH.....

Surname: Tire

Recorded as Terr, Tire, Tyre, Tyer, Tyrer, Tireman, Tyreman, and the patronymic Tyres, this is a surname of early medieval English origin. It is thought to have been an occupational name for an official in charge of the "wardrobe" of a royla or at least noble family, and responsible for all their clothes, as well as the furniture down to the beds and accessories. This would have been a very important position and a major undertaking as it was usual for such people to travel between their different castles or houses, taking all their possessions with them! The derivation is from the word "tiren", meaning to equip or dress, from the Old French "atirier" probably introduced into the British Isles after the Norman Conquest of 1066. Job-descriptive surnames originally denoted the actual occupation of the namebearer, and only later became hereditary when a relative usually a son, followed the original namehoder into the same occupation or skill. For reasons that we are unable to discover this name in its various forms seems to have been prevalent in the county of Lancashire. Recordings from surviving church registers include: the christening of Edmund Tyrer on March 4th 1567, at Kirkham, Lancashire, Joane Tyre who married Joihn Tayler at All Saints Wandsworth, on September 22nd 1605, Symon Tyreman who married Mary Pyne at the church of St Perter le Poer, also city of London, on Augist 10th 1675. A coat of arms associated with the surname has the blazon of "A blue field chrarged with a lion rampant in silver, between a gold border. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was sometimes known as the Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.

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Answer 2

It isn't in the list on my favorite surname site.

http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/f...

has just 104 entries, almost all from the UK or her colonies.

http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.c...

has 164 entries, most from someone who didn't know how to replace the old data, so he/she added again and again, leaving a mess; multiple data bases from different dates. I would not trust his/her research.

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Every time I answer a "Surname Origin?" question, I think of the joke:

Man sees a sign, "Olaf Olafson, Chinese Restaurant". He goes in, orders a plate of chow mein, asks the Chinese gentleman behind the counter who is Olaf. Chinese gentleman says, "Me! There I was at Ellis Island. The man in front of me was a Swede, six foot four, broad shoulders, red beard. They ask him 'Name?' he says 'Olaf Olafson', in a voice that makes the pens rattle in their holders. Off he goes to seek his fortune. They ask me 'Name?', I say 'Sam Ting', and here I am."

[Sam Ting = Same Thing]



Seriously, you should have 16 surnames among your great great grandparents, unless you double up on Smith, Johnson, Miller or Jones or someone married a cousin.

If you are in the USA and trace your family tree, you might find an immigrant who came through Ellis Island yearning to be free, a bootlegger, a flapper, a great uncle who died in the muddy trenches of France in 1917. You may find someone who marched off to fight in the Civil War (Maybe two, one wearing blue, one wearing grey). You may find a German who became Pennsylvania "Dutch", a Huguenot, an Irish Potato Famine immigrant. You might find someone who married at 18 and supported his family with musket, plow and axe in the howling wilderness we now call Ohio.

In the UK your chances of finding a homesteader are less, but your chances of finding that great uncle who served in WWI are better.

In Australia you may find someone who got a free ride to a new home, courtesy of the benevolent Government and HM Prison ship "Hope".

Your grandfather with that surname may have married a Scot, a Sioux, a Swede. HIS father, a stolid, dull protestant, may have married an Italian with flashing dark eyes, the first woman on the block to serve red wine in jelly glasses and use garlic in her stew. You'll never know if this is the only question you ask.

Answer 3

Maybe this site will help

Answer 4

It's sound Jewish to me or English, because a lot of Jews have anglized their family name when they emigrated...