What does my mothers maiden name mean?

Question

my mothers maiden name is seabury and i was interested where its derived from and what it means i know its from england and ireland somewhere around there.. also my grandmothers surname which is Barr?

oh and my dads surname is seaton and my mums seabury i was wondering are these two family trees like all from the one seed if you know what i meen (ok ill just say it.. are my mum and dad related other then the marriage part LOL!!!) only sensible answers please

Answer 1

Seaton is near Exeter just inland from  the south coast of England. People then used mostly first names...so would use the town names like John from Seaton...to differentiate him from John from Exeter.Thus London, Combe, Ramsden are all surnames after towns and villages. Makes you wonder where the Bush family came from.

Answer 2

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Seabury Name Meaning and History

English: variant of Seaberg.

Barr Name Meaning and History

Scottish and northern Irish: habitational name from any of various places in southwestern Scotland, in particular Ayrshire and Renfrewshire, named with Gaelic barr ‘height’, ‘hill’ or a British cognate of this.

English: topographic name for someone who lived by a gateway or barrier, from Middle English, Old French barre ‘bar’, ‘obstruction’.

English (of Norman origin): habitational name from any of various places in northern France called Barre. See Barre.

English: habitational name from any of various places in England called Barr, for example Great Barr in the West Midlands, named with the Celtic element barro ‘height’, ‘hill’.

English: from the vocabulary word barr ‘bar’, ‘pole’, either a metonymic occupational name for a maker of bars, or perhaps a nickname for a tall, thin man.

Irish: from Ó Bairr, Donegal form of Ó Báire (see Barry 2).

Seaton Name Meaning and History

Scottish and English: habitational name from any of the various places so called. A Scottish place of this name near Longniddry is so named because it was held from the 12th century by a Norman family de Sey, from Say in Indre. Other places of this name, for example those in Cumbria, Devon, County Durham, Northumbria, and Yorkshire, are mostly named with Old English s? ‘sea’, ‘lake’ + tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. One in Rutland seems to have as its first element a stream name, S?ge (see Seabrook), or a personal name S?ga. One in Kent is named with Old English seten ‘plantation’, ‘cultivated land’.

Hope this helps.

Answer 3

No. they sre not related by blood.  

Names usually go back a few centuries.  Many times related to the work that a family did...........Fisher, Cooper, Carpenter, etc.

Seabury might come from a sailor who assisted in burial at sea.  Who knows????

Seaton might haver something else having to do with the sea.  England and Ireland are both islands, dont forget, so lots of people from these countries had something to do with the sea, or fishing, or sailing, etc.

Who knows?  Maybe your Grandmother's family ran a Pub(or a bar).

Dont worry about the names.just be happy that your folks love you!!!

Answer 4

www.surnamedb.com

Surname: Barr

This interesting name has three possible sources the first being that it is of Scottish origin and is locational from two places so called, in Ayrshire and Renfrewshire, and derives from the Gaelic "barr", height or hill. Great Barr in the West Midlands has a derivation akin to this, the Celtic or Welsh "barr" with the same meaning as above. It could also be a Norman locational name from two places in France, Barr-en-Ouche, or Barr-de-Semilly which have their derivation in the Olde French "barre", meaning a barrier or gateway. There is a Middle English word "barre", with the same meaning, thus it is thought that this name could be topographical for one living near a place of that description. Hugo Barr was recorded in the Danelaw Documents relating to Lancaster in 1155, while the Assize Rolls of Stafford mention a William de Barre in 1199. In Scotland Albyn de Barr was baillie of Ayr in 1340. Anne Barr married John Bickerton on October 21st, 1731 at Christchurch, Greyfriars, Newgate in London. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Richard de Barra, which was dated in the Domesday Book of 1086, Somerset, during the reign of William 1, known as "the Conqueror", 1066 - 1087. 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.

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English: from the vocabulary word "barr" ‘bar’, ‘pole’, either a metonymic occupational name for a maker of bars, or perhaps a nickname for a tall, thin man.

Irish: from Ó Bairr, Donegal form of ÓO' Baire (see Barry 2).

Barre--The meaning of the surname derived from this word is uncertain. It may sometimes have been a topographic name for a person who lived in a place that was naturally cut off or particularly well fortified, but in many cases it was probably a nickname meaning ‘striped’, referring to a habitual wearer of striped clothing or possibly to someone with a noticeable birthmark. In the Middle Ages the term was also applied to the Carmelite Friars, who wore habits striped in black, yellow, and white, and it may have been used as a nickname for someone thought to resemble a Carmelite in some way. The name is also found in Germany, attested as a Huguenot name, for example in Magdeburg in 1703.

Barry--Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Beargha ‘descendant of Beargh’, a byname meaning ‘plunderer’.

Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic ÓO'Baire, ‘descendant of Baire’, a short form of either of two Gaelic personal names, Bairrfhionn or Fionnbharr.

Seabury--English: variant of Seaberg.

Seaberg--Partial translation of Swedish Sjoberg, an ornamental name composed of the elements "sjo"ö ‘"sea"’ + "berg" ‘"mountain’, ‘hill"’.

English: from a Middle English form of an Old English feminine personal name, S?burh, composed of the elements "s?" ‘"sea"’ + "burh" ‘"fortified place"’.

Possibly also English: habitational name from Seaborough in Dorset (from Old English "seofon" ‘"seven"’ + "beorg" ‘"hill’, ‘burial mound"’) or possibly from Seaborough Hall in Essex.

Seaton--Scottish and English: habitational name from any of the various places so called. A Scottish place of this name near Longniddry is so named because it was held from the 12th century by a Norman family de Sey, from Say in Indre. Other places of this name, for example those in Cumbria, Devon, County Durham, Northumbria, and Yorkshire, are mostly named with Old English "s?" ‘"sea’, ‘lake"’ + "tun" ‘"enclosure’, ‘settlement"’. One in Rutland seems to have as its first element a stream name, "S?ge" (see Seabrook), or a personal name "S?ga". One in Kent is named with Old English "seten" ‘"plantation’, ‘cultivated land"’.

As to if they are related, other than marriage, we'd have to have some names/dates to go by.

Answer 5

Good luck.  A lot of names get so mangled from their original pronunciation it is hard to track their source.

Allegedly Finnish names are so hard to pronounce that employees at Ellis Island would just put down Hill as their last name.

My last name is a common English word, though we believe it is actually the English spelling of a Welsh name and not from the English word.

Some names are easy to figure out. Cooper, Smith, Baker, Fletcher, etc were all professions.

Scandinavians would name their children for their parents.  So you had Will's son or Ander's son, becoming Wilson or Anderson.  The Danes would spell it Andersen.  I knew a woman from Iceland whose last name was Ragnarsdottir.  Literally Ragnar's daughter.