What is the origin of the last name norise?

Question

what is the ethnic origin of the last name norise?

Answer 1

www.familysearch.org has these varied spellings: NORIS ; NORISS ; NORRIS; NORRISH; NORRICE ; NOORHEES ; NORYS; NORIES ; NOURIS; NORAS ; NOREUS ; NORUS; NOORIS ; VAN NOORIS; NOORHIES; NORICE ; NOORHIS ; NOURASS; NOROUS ; NOREAS; NORACE; NOORESS ;

KNORUSS ; NAWRIS ; NORHUSE ; NORES; NORHESS;

NAURICE ; NOARRIS; NOARSE ; NARRIS;DE NOYERS; NEARS; NURRISE; and  NORRYCE --just to name a few. (LOL)

     It is found in the US (various states), England , Scotland, Ireland , Wales , Canada, & Italy.

     Some early listings, and 3 with unusual first names are:

ADAM NORRIS--Birth: About 1258 Of St Dionis Bachchurch, London, London, England

Adeline De Noyers--Birth: About 1174

Augnys (I think it's a form of Agnes) ,  Affricana ,Agnetum -unusual first names, and all found in England.

www.ancestry.com

(I used one of the varied spellings above to find the origin and meaning of the name):

Norris Name Meaning and History

1.regional name for someone who had migrated from the North (i.e. further north in England, or from Scotland or Scandinavia), from Old French "nor(r)eis" ‘"northerner"’.

2.topographic name for someone who lived in a house on the north side of a settlement or estate, from Middle English "north" ‘north’ + "hous" ‘house’.

3. occupational name for a wet-nurse or foster mother, from Old French "nurice", norrice (Latin "nutrix", genitive "nutricis").

Norris Civil War participants:

1110 Confederate

1355 Union

2465 Combined

Answer 2

Everyone on the Mormon database

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

with the "Exact spelling" option is from the UK, USA or Italy. The two Italian entries are duplicates. She could have been born to tourists from the UK on holiday. he could have been borninthe UK; her IGI citations look suspicious to me.

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

has 13 entries.

If you really meant "Norris", try again.

If your surname is "Norise", I hope you got your growth early. I suffered with "Pack rat" all through high school from people who thought they were witty. They were 50% correct. I was skinny and good at math. I can imagine the jokes about waistbands and slacks that you got.

Our high school also had a boy named "Carrol", but he was on the varsity track team, putting the shot, as a sophomore. People didn't make fun of him.

Answer 3

The Italian surname Norise means, "Of the Norse men."

Just as the Italian surname, "Danese" or "Danise" means, "of the Danes or "from the Danes."

Answer 4

Recorded in several forms including Noris, Norris, Norres, Norriss, Norrish, and dialectals such as Nares, Naris, and Nearise, this is an Anglo-French surname. It has three possible origins that have become intertwined over the centuries. The first and most generally applicable to modern-day bearers of the name is ethnic. It derives from the Norman-French pre 10th century word "norreis", meaning a northerner, or more pragmatically a Norseman or what we now know as a Viking. The dukedom of Normandy in France means the place of the North men, since it was settled by Vikings in the 8th century a.d. When the Normans invaded England in 1066, they were often fighting their own long lost relatives who were by then English. The second possible origin is topographical and English. It was a description for someone who lived "at the north house". This would be one on the north side of a village or settlement. The name is a fused form of 'Nor-hus' from the pre 7th century words "nor", meaning north, and "hus", a house. An early recording from this origin is that of Adam de Norhuse of Essex in the year 1206. The third possible origin is French and occupational. Probably introduced after the Norman Conquest of 1066, it originates from the French word "norrice", and describes a nurse or tender of the sick.. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Robert Norreis. This was dated 1148, in the "Winton Rolls" of the county of Hampshire, during the reign of King Stephen of England, 1135 - 1154.