Origin
Bovey : English:: 1: (Devon): habitational name from either of two places in Devon Bovey Tracey or North Bovey which take their names from the Bovey river on which they stand.2: perhaps occasionally from the Middle English personal name Bove (from the Old Norse Bófi Bovi Bove a nickname from bófi ‘knave rogue’) or from the Scandinavian name directly.
Didham : from Didham in Buckland Monachorum (Devon) or possibly Dittisham (Devon recorded as Diddesham in 1238) with loss of medial -es-. The latter place is much closer to Bovey Tracy where the surname is recorded in the 17th century; compare the surname Didisham 1230 in Pipe Rolls (Devon).
Hatherley : English: habitational name from Hatherleigh in Bovey Tracey (Devon) Up Hatherley Down Hatherley (Gloucestershire) or Hatherly Farm in Hilton (Dorset). The placenames probably derive from Old English hagu-thorn hæg-thorn ‘hawthorn’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’ although the initial element could alternatively be hǣddre ‘heather’.
Heatherly : English (Midlands): habitational name from Hatherleigh in Bovey Tracey (Devon) Up Hatherley Down Hatherley (Gloucestershire) or Hatherly Farm in Hilton (Dorset). The placenames may derive from Old English hagu-thorn hæg-thorn ‘hawthorn’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’ though the initial element may alternatively be hǣddre ‘heather’ or a derivative of hǣth ‘heath heather’ (such as hǣthor from hǣth + the noun suffix -or; see Heather).
Kingdon : English (southwestern especially Devon): habitational name from Higher Kingdon in Alverdiscott or from Kendon in North Bovey both in Devon. Both are named in Old English from cyning ‘king’ (see King) or cyne- ‘royal’ + dūn ‘hill’.
Langler : from Langaller in Bovey Tracey (Devon) which is recorded as Longhalre in 1286 and Langealler in 1475. The place-name derives from Old English lang ‘long tall high’ + alor ‘alder’.
Norcombe : from Northcombe in Bovey Tracey (Devon) Northcombe in Bratton Clovelly (Devon) which is recorded as Northcumb in 1279 or Northcombe in Dulverton (Somerset). The place-names derive from Old English norð ‘northern north’ + cumb ‘valley hollow’.
Shapley : English (Devon): habitational name from Shapley in Chagford (Devon) or Shapley in North Bovey (Devon) both from Old English scēap ‘sheep’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
Shute : 1: English (Devon): habitational name from any of several places called with Middle English shute Old English scīete ‘projecting piece of land’ (often in the corner of a parish) in particular those in Devon which include Shute near Axminster Shute in Kelly Shute in Ugborough Shute in Shobrooke Shute Farm in Bishopsteignton and Shewte in Bovey Tracy. Other sources of the surname may include Shute Farm in Longbridge Deverill and Shute Farm in Donhead Saint Mary (both Wiltshire).2: In some cases also an Americanized form of Croatian and Slovenian Šute and probably also of its cognate Šutej (see Shutey). Compare Shutte and Schutte.
Woolley : 1: English: habitational name from any of various places called with Old English wulf ‘wolf’ + lēah ‘wood clearing’ such as Woolley (Huntingdonshire Yorkshire) Woolley in Bovey Tracy (Devon) and Woolley in Bradford on Avon (Wiltshire).2: Irish (Cavan): in Ireland according to Woulfe when this is not the English name it has been adopted for Woulfe.
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Source : DAFN2 : Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, ©2022 by Patrick Hanks and Oxford University Press
FANBI : The Oxford Dictionary if Family Names in Britain and Ireland, ©2016, University of the West of England
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