Heritage

Heritage One-Name Study

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About the study

I registered with the Guild of One-Name Studies, in 2018, following on from John Heritage who sadly died in early 2018.
I would be happy to hear from others who have an interest in the Heritage name & who would like to exchange information.

Please contact me through the link at the bottom of the page.

Category:

Worldwide occurrences of the HERITAGE surname will be researched, though at present I mostly have England and Wales data entries.

Variant names

HERETAGE, ERYTAGE

Name origin

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

Historical occurrences of the name

Name frequency

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

Distribution of the name

Data

DNA

Links

heritage@one-name.org

Derek Heritage

Contact