Origin
BANGS : This name may be a corruption of Banks, or from the French bain, a bath, a hot-house. View the BANKS results.
COMEYN : From Cominges, a town in France, anciently called Lugdunum Convenarum, situated on a hill near the banks of the river Garonne, so named because people of diverse countries assembled together to dwell in that place. Comeyne or De Cominges went into England with William the Conqueror.
DE COMINGES : From Cominges, a town in France, anciently called Lugdunum Convenarum, situated on a hill near the banks of the river Garonne, so named because people of diverse countries assembled together to dwell in that place. Comeyne or De Cominges went into England with William the Conqueror.
COURTENAY : Local. A town of France which stands on a hill on the banks of the small river Clairy, about fifty-six miles south of Paris. This small town has imparted its name to several princes, whose actions are celebrated in French history. The name signifies The court near the water.
GLANVlLLE : Local. A house or castle on the shore of a river or the sea; Welsh, glan, a shore, bank of a river; old French or Gaelic, the same; as Glandeve, in France, on the banks of the Var. Glan or glen signifies also a narrow valley or dell.
GRAY : Local. A town in Burgundy, France, on the banks of the Saone. Rollo, Chamberlain to Robert, Duke of Normandy, received from him the castle and honor of Croy, in Picardy, whence his family assumed the name of De Croy, afterward changed into De Gray.
LAYCOCK : Local. A village on the banks of the Avon, in Wiltshire, England. The name may be the same as Lucock that is, little Luke.
NAIRNE : Local. The name of a shire, river, and town in Scotland, whence the surname is derived. The name was taken from the river, which was called in Gaelic wisge-n'fhearn, from uisge, water, and n'fhearn (pronounced nearn, the fh having no sound), the alders the water of the alders, from the great number of alder-trees which grew on its banks.
NOYES : Noy is an abbreviation for Noah. In England, in the seventeenth century, Attorney-General Noy was succeeded by Sir John Banks, and Chief-justice Heath being found guilty of bribery, Sir John Finch obtained the office; hence it was said: Noy's flood is gone, The Banks appear, Heath is shorn down, And Finch sings here.' Lower.
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