Guild of One-Name Studies
One-name studies, Genealogy
Study: Heritage
Variants: Erytage, Heretage
Category: 2 - A study where research using core genealogical datasets and transcriptions is well under way, but currently in some countries only.
Website: heritage.one-name.net
Contact: Derek Heritage
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Worldwide occurrences of the HERITAGE surname will be researched, though at present I mostly have England and Wales data entries.
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HERRITAGE, HERETAGE, ERYTAGE
For the meaning of the surname I quote from Celia Heritage's web site "My own surname, Heritage, is a good example. Most surname dictionaries define it as referring to someone who inherited land from an ancestor, rather than holding land from the lord. Most give its origin as ‘Old French’. Yet there is no similar surname on the continent, which is strange. A more likely interpretation is that it derives from the Old English word heretoga which originally meant a war leader, but by the time the surname evolved probably referred to a local community leader." https://www.heritagefamilyhistory.co.uk/blog/?s=surnameImage already added
Some early examples of the name are: John Erytage, Huntingdonshire, 1273. Hundred Rolls. Heritage, Thomas (c 1470-1537), Surveyor of the King's Works Richard Herytage, 1519: Register of the University of Oxford. 1558. Thomas Snowden and Alice Heritage: Marriage Lic. (London). Ralph Heritage, of Dukenfield, 1578: Wills at Chester. One of the earliest settlers in the New World was Richard Heritage traveled to New Jersey in 1664.
699 individuals with the name of Heritage were recorded in the 1841 Census, which by the time of the 1911 Census had risen to 1656
The surname Heritage was first found in Oxfordshire. From there the family mostly spread to Northamptonshire, Warwickshire, Buckinghamshire and London.
Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2255698461376767 heritage@one-name.org
Derek Heritage