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From: Dick Jones <>
Subject: Re: Origins of Surname COAD
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 19:01:31 +0000

>WOW! That was great info on the MOON surname.
>
>Can anyone tell me the origin of the surname COAD.
>
>TIA
>
>Edwin Ernest Coad III
>Casselberry, Florida
>

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COAD
English (Devon): Probably a metonymic occupational name for a cobbler's
assistant, from Middle English 'code' cobbler's wax. Alternatively, it may
possibly be a topographic name from Old Cornish 'cuit' wood.

Source:
'A Dictionary of Surnames' by Patrick Hanks & Flavia Hodges
[Oxford University Press] 1988
ISBN 0-19-211592-8

So some uncertainty I'm afraid.

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Best regards
Dick Jones
Leigh-on-Sea, Essex. U.K. <>

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