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Heritage One-Name Study

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Study details

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


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.

 

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Variant names

HERRITAGE, HERETAGE, ERYTAGE

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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=surname
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Historical occurrences of the name

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.

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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

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Distribution of the name

The surname Heritage was first found in Oxfordshire. From there the family mostly spread to Northamptonshire, Warwickshire, Buckinghamshire and London.

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Data

 

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DNA

 

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Links

Facebook Group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2255698461376767

heritage@one-name.org

Derek Heritage

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Contact Details

Derek Heritage

General Search Results

Occurrences of the surname Heritage in the Guild Indexes
(Click on the number to view the search results in each index. Indexes marked by * are only accessible by logged in Guild members.)
  • Global Marriages (public)  44
  • Global Marriages (members)* 142
  • Inscriptions Index  2
  • Modern Newspaper Index  2
  • Marriage Index 1837-1945* 138
  • Probate Index* 6
  • BMD Index* 31
  • Members' Data Stores in which the name Heritage appears 18
  • References to the name Heritage in the Guild Journal  14

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