Each family connects hundreds of people to form an intricate pattern of ancestors and descendants. Our origins span the world, our families come from all religions and ways of life. The common thread of Heraldry links many cultures and establishes the foundations of a Surname before words were a common understanding and images demonstrated a basic understanding to the populace.
This page represents the following Surnames: Lee.
There were a variety of Asian surnames involved in available ‘Lee’ information, however we chose not to represent those names here, as we know there is no hereditary connection between those names and our European line.
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Lee Name Meaning
‘Person who lives by a meadow or area of arable land’ (From Middle English lee or lea). Also person from Lee, Lea or Leigh, the name of numerous places in England (‘Pleace by the wood or by the glade’). From Irish Gaelic Ó Laoidheach ‘descendant of Laoidheach’, a personal name meaning literally ‘poet’.
Lee Name Meaning and History
English: topographic name for someone who lived near a meadow or a patch of arable land, Middle English lee, lea, from Old English lea, dative case (used after a preposition) of leah, which originally meant ‘wood’ or ‘glade’.
English: habitational name from any of the many places named with Old English leah ‘wood’, ‘glade’, as for example Lee in Buckinghamshire, Essex, Hampshire, Kent, and Shropshire, and Lea in Cheshire, Derbyshire, Herefordshire, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, and Wiltshire.
Irish: reduced Americanized form of Ó Laoidhigh ‘descendant of Laoidheach’, a personal name derived from laoidh ‘poem’, ‘song’ (originally a byname for a poet).
Americanized spelling of Norwegian Li or Lie.
Lie Name Meaning and History
Norwegian: variant spelling of Li. In Norway this is the most frequent spelling.
Dutch (de Lie): from a short form of the saint’s name Odilia, the Latin form of a Germanic name Odela, from othala ‘paternal inheritance or possession’.
Family Motto: ‘Courageux’ (Courageous)
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Surname References from:
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
Encyclopedia of Surnames, John Ayto, A & C Black Publishers Ltd, ISBN 978 0 7136 8144 4
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