Our Surnames and Where Our Families Originated           

Our families come from Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, Virginia and dates back to 1895 in Kansas.   We also came from Ireland, Scotland, Hungary, Germany, England. Traditionally, the last name can tell a lot about your heritage.  The last name often told where you came from and the class of your family.  We don’t hold to that as much these days.

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My Forever Family

Anderson-Blaker Family

The Anderson-Blaker families came from Scotland and Northern England and possibly Germany. This is my “forever family”; the family that I adopted as my “Parents” when I was in high school.  My “forever family” showed me the real meaning of “family”, “parents”, “sisters”, “aunts”, “uncles”, “grandparents” and “unconditional love” is really all about.  I learned how to be a “Mom” and a “Grandma” by watching them be wonderful parents and grandparents to my children.  I learned about “love” from watching them love so intensely and so unconditionally.  I don’t honestly know where I would be today if I hadn’t become part of their family.  I carried little “traditions” to my own small family from what I learned from this wonderful family.

Anderson NAME

·         Scottish and northern English: very common patronymic from the personal name Ander(s), a northern Middle English form of Andrew. The frequency of the surname in Scotland is attributable, at least in part, to the fact that St. Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland, so the personal name has long enjoyed great popularity there. Legend has it that the saint’s relics were taken to Scotland in the 4th century by a certain St. Regulus. The surname was brought independently to North America by many different bearers and was particularly common among 18th-century Scotch-Irish settlers in PA and VA. In the United States, it has absorbed many cognate or like-sounding names in other European languages, notably Swedish Anderson, Norwegian and Danish Anderson, but also Ukrainian Andreychyn, Hungarian Andrásfi, etc.

Blaker NAME: English: variant of Blacker or Blocker

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Bingham Family

The Bingham family can trace their ancestors back to the ancient territories of England between the 11th and 12th centuries. The Bingham family traces their ancestral roots back to Anglo Saxon origin, and first appeared in ancient medieval records in Somerset . Find a more In depth account on the Bingham Family History Scroll. That from very early on

the Bingham family not only held lands and estates in England but were also actively allied with other influential families. They also branched out into other territories and holdings,

Bingham NAME

·         English: habitational name from a place in Nottinghamshire called Bingham, from an unattested Old English clan name, Binningas, or an Old English word bing ‘(a) hollow’ + Old English hām ‘homestead’.

·         Jewish (American): Americanized form of various like-sounding habitational names such as Bingenheimer.

·         The Bingham family of Melcombe Bingham in Dorset can trace their descent back to Robert de Bingham, recorded in 1273, who probably came from Bingham in Nottinghamshire. His descendants included the Earls of Lucan. A branch of the family was established in Ireland, where they gave their name to Binghamstown in County Mayo. Sir Richard Bingham (c.1528–99) was Marshal of Ireland. Charles Bingham (1735–99) was created earl of Lucan in 1795.

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Burwell Family

The Burwell family can trace their ancestors back to the ancient territories of England between the 11th and 12th centuries. The Burwell family traces their ancestral roots back to Anglo Saxon origin, and first appeared in ancient medieval records in Suffolk . That from very early on the Burwell family not only held lands and estates in England but were also actively allied with other influential families. They also branched out into other territories and holdings, before taking the long voyage to the new world.

BURWELL Shield: Gold with an ermine chevron between three burr leaves.

BURWELL Crest: A lion's paw holding three burr leaves.

Burwell NAME

·         English: habitational name from a place named Burwell, of which there are examples in Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire, named with Old English burh ‘fort’ + wella ‘spring’.

McArthur Family researching this family name and it’s origin

McArthur NAME researching this family name and it’s origin.  May be from Ireland, because Chaunsey sounds Irish.

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Chek Family

The Cseh/Chek family is from Hungary (A socialist country).  Our Ancestors came to America to find the great promise of freedom.  (Dutch, German, Hungarian).  Stephen James and James Stephen are believed to be father/son.  The father was 21, the mother was 20 and the boy was 3 when they came to America.  The boy is believed to be my grandfather Steve Cseh.

Chek - Cseh NAME

·         Hungarian: ethnic name for someone of Czech ancestry.

·         Means Czech in Hungarian

McMurtrie Family

The McMurtry or McMurtrie family is from Ireland and Scotland.  Dating back to 1785 in Ireland and Scottish dating back to 1721 in Dalmellington, Ayrshire, Scotland

McMurtrie NAME

The McMurtry or McMurtrie family is from Ireland and from Scotland

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Grow Family

The Grow family might be from Germany.  Grandma Grow was full blooded Cherokee Indian though. I married into the Grow Family.  They accepted me with open arms and always treated me like just another member of the family. 

Grow NAME

·         North German: variant of Groh, (German: nickname for a grizzled or gray-haired man, from Middle High German grā ‘gray’.)

·         North German: variant of Growe or Grube. (German: topographic name for someone who lived in a depression or hollow, from Middle High German gruobe ‘pit’, ‘hollow’. See also Gruber.

·         German: from a personal name Grubo, which merged completely with 1.

·         German: The earliest known American bearer of the surname Grube was the Moravian missionary Bernhard Adam Grube, who was born in 1715 in Thüringen, at Walschleben near Erfurt, Germany. He was sent to PA in the spring of 1748, where he was a teacher. Subsequently, he volunteered for work among the Indians. He lived out his years in Bethlehem, PA.

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Other Family

Rodriguez NAME: Spanish (Rodríguez) and Portuguese: patronymic from the personal name Rodrigo.

Sutcliffe NAME: English: habitational name from any of the three places in West Yorkshire, so named from Old English sūð ‘south’ + clif ‘riverbank’, ‘slope’, ‘cliff’, or a topographic name with the same meaning.

Benitez NAME: Spanish (Benítez): patronymic from Benito.

Critchfield NAME: English: variant of Crutchfield.

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