De-Anglicisation of Names

[BroosterB1]

Ok, great stuff. What about Byers? Closet I've gotten is Birse. Just for fun lets go for Bruce Richard as well. FYI Birse or Byers is a Sept of Lindsay.

[Ivy]

Great stuff. My Scottish ancestry comes from my Mom's side, Ralston. My last name, Ivy, is the one that gets conflicting origins though...

[gilmore]

Great stuff. My Scottish ancestry comes from my Mom's side, Ralston. My last name, Ivy, is the one that gets conflicting origins though...

Surname profiler http://www.nationaltrustnames.org.uk/default.aspx shows it mostly in a small area in the north of England around Harrowgate and north of Liverpool, and in Cornwall.

[Downix]

Surname profiler http://www.nationaltrustnames.org.uk/default.aspx shows it mostly in a small area in the north of England around Harrowgate and north of Liverpool, and in Cornwall.

I just used that for my own... holy smokes, all through Wales and the Hebrides.

[Ivy]

Surname profiler http://www.nationaltrustnames.org.uk/default.aspx shows it mostly in a small area in the north of England around Harrowgate and north of Liverpool, and in Cornwall.

Yeah, I was already aware (through genealogical research) that Ivy hails from that area. What I was referring to was the etymology of the name. Some sources claim "son of Ive", but I have seen referenced to the possibility of it being a place name or simply referring to the plant. Mostly I find this thread really fun to follow, and I think that the transliterations are really interesting, even though they have no relation to the name being Gaelic in origin. Sorry if I was unclear before.

Ralston is a Scottish place name: Ralph, one of the descendants of Mac Duff, Thane of Fife, obtained a grant of land in Renfrewshire (bordering onto the eastern edge of the town of Paisley), and, as was common in those days, called he place after himself, Ralphstown, which was softened into Ralston.

[slohairt]

Great stuff. My Scottish ancestry comes from my Mom's side, Ralston. My last name, Ivy, is the one that gets conflicting origins though...

RALSTON Topographical from an estate near Paisley. It is derived from Ralph's toun (or settlement).

IVY Not sure at all about this one. Possibly from the plant, but it also bears some resemblance to the Irish name Iveagh (from Irish Uíbh Eachach).

[slohairt]

Ok, great stuff. What about Byers? Closet I've gotten is Birse. Just for fun lets go for Bruce Richard as well. FYI Birse or Byers is a Sept of Lindsay.

BIRSE Birse is topographical and from a village in the northeast of Scotland. It was originally recorded as Bras.(?)