surname Edmondson

[KittyGirl]

ok so heres the deal, my second name is Edmondson. i have spent so long trying to find out where it originated from. everywhere i look it says its scottish and i know for a fact it is not scottish! so plz help

[crete]

does it mean edmonds son ?

[dot.hawkes]

It is a Patronymic (fathers name) and probably Nordic or there abouts. There is a difference between the meaning of a surname and it's origin, if your family History is being researched you will be able to establish where in the UK your family goes back to up to 1537. Before then it is not as easy and the sources are primarily in the scriveners latin.

[DaSwede]

Don't know the origin, but here in Sweden it's a surname you'd bump into now and then, although the spelling would more often be with two s's and with a u: Edmundsson. And yes crete is right, that would (originally) have meant Edmund's son.

Danish and Norwegian is often similar to Swedish, so I'd check those possibilities out as well. Good luck!

[DaSwede]

Didn't see you, dot!

[dot.hawkes]

hi Deswede, sorry I always call them Nordic names, but it covers your part of the World too I hope lol maybe I should say Scandanavian but in Family History that is a modern word lol

[DaSwede]

Oh that's ok dot, 'Nordic' sounds magnific if anything, and as you say it does cover Sweden. There is a difference though, which may be useful for you KittyGirl to be aware of if you start doing research on your name.

[KittyGirl]

oh thank you so much, i appreciate it!

<3 muchluv <3

=^.^=

[Buenchico]

The earliest recorded use of the name Edmondson in England is a reference to a Robert Edmondson in the Yorkshire poll tax returns of 1379.

However, as Dot says, the name means 'son of Edmund' and references to 'Edmund' go back at least as far as King Edmund, who was born in 921 and came to the throne of England in 939. Edmund was of Saxon (i.e. Germanic) descent.

Chris

[A Chill Wind]

Looks like you win your argument, KittyGirl!

The Spatial Literacy website shows geographical distribution for surnames by county for 1881 and 1998. (you familiar with this one, dot?)

Blackburn seems to the hub for your clan according to this.

http://www.spatial-literacy.org/UCLnames/Compa risons.aspx?name=EDMUNDSON&year=1881&altyear=1 998&country=GB&type=name

[A Chill Wind]

Sorry, I did you a disservice by misspelling your surname.
Lancaster instead of Blackburn.

http://www.spatial-literacy.org/UCLnames/Compa risons.aspx?name=EDMONDSON&year=1881&altyear=1 998&country=GB&type=name

[KittyGirl]

wow thank you! very much!

[KittyGirl]

..............and wow funny how things turn out, possibly the onlt country you don't want it to be from and hey presto it just happens to be english, well thank you all for your help i appreciate it very much