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From: "Tina Kirby" <>
Subject: Re: origin of Surname ... lookup
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 06:07:21 +0000



ah so my maternal ancestors were large, strong and stout. I suppose that
explains my uncles ... hehe

Researching BIGGS from Bath, Somerset to Ramsbury, Wiltshire.

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Subject: Re: origin of Surname ... lookup
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 02:37:07 GMT

Hi there - Biggs is as you would guess 'large,strong,stout', and for Bunch
it
says 'perhaps a protuberance, a hump on the back'. Regards, Mal Pace.>

>>>Does anyone have one of those nifty 'etymology of surnames'
> books handy that they could look up the origin of the surname>>>
>
> if so could you also find
> BIGGS
> BUNCH
> Thank you ever so much.
> shirl
>
>






Visit http://www.swangen.co.uk/family/index.htm
for certificate and census details and
http://www.swangen.com/family/index.shtml for detailed trees that I am
gradually uploading.

My Essex Connections:
Baylis (Worcestershire->Lambeth, London->Streatham, London->Ilford) -
Married into Smith
Cock (Castle Hedingham) - Married into Mason
Coe (Stradishall,Suffolk->Castle Hedingham)
Hobbs (Pancras, London->Hackney, London->West Ham)
Kember (Kent?->Poplar->West Ham) - Married into Phillips
Kirby (Paddington, London->Ilford)
Mason (Little Yeldham->Great Maplestead->Castle Hedingham->Little Ilford)
Phillips (Poplar->West Ham) - Married into Hobbs
Redgwell (Castle Hedingham->Little Ilford) - Married into Mason
Shoesmith (Gypsies in West Ham 1881) - Married into Wright
Siday (Belchamp Waters) - Married into Mason
Smith - Maternal (Wiltshire->Ilford) - Married into Swanborough
Smith - Paternal (Wiltshire->Stratford, London->Ilford)
Sneezum (Great Maplestead->Little Yeldham) - Married into Mason
Swanborough (Wiltshire->Ilford)
Wright (Loughton->West Ham->Ilford) - Married into Swanborough


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