UWE Bristol Professor Richard Coates said they worked particularly hard to link family names to locations. It also includes 8000 family names explained for the first time including Farah, Twelvetrees and Li (Lee) and reveals some surprising coincidences. "We're all naturally fascinated about where our family names originate from and what meaning they might have. The results will be published in the Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland with results available online at the Oxford University Press. • Middleton (15,513 bearers in the 1881 Census, widespread throughout England and Scotland; 21,440 bearers in 2011) - This is a locative surname.

Source: New Zealand Herald November 17, 2016 19:31 UTC