PLUMMER : considered as an Anglo-Saxon name , but the linguistic origin seems French (< < ‘plume’ cf French surname
Plumier :
feather - or ‘plumber’ < > ‘plombier’ :
lead pipes maker) spite an English one (
plum of plum tree)
is also possible – so a Norman origin is not excluded, in absence of ancient traces -
POCKETT : House of names says : The surname
Pockett was first found in
Lincolnshire where John
Poucher was listed in the Modern
Domesday Book.
[1] While this is the first listing of the name in
England, we must look further back to
Brittany to find another origin of the name. For it is there that Poher was an ancient principality in the Early Middle Ages in Cornouaille in west-central
Brittany. Judicael (died c. 888) held the title "princeps
Poucher," controller of Poher. The aforementioned Bardsley reference claims that the name was an
occupational name as in "the poucher, a maker of pouches, pokes or bags." - I doubt greatly about the explanation by the Poher of Brittany : ‘Poucher’ in Breton was pronounced approximatively /p[FONT=Liberation Serif, serif]ɔwɣɛr/ [/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif]and the big variety of spellings of the time shows that oral was dominant over writing, so Pou(c)her or Poher would hardly have given Pocker, even less Pockett, IMO – [/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif]in France we have the surnames [/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif]
Pochet / Poquet[/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif] surely linked to the meaning of [/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif]
pocket, [/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif]word of French origin in English -[/FONT]
[FONT=Liberation Serif, serif]P[/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif]OLLITT : House of names says : [/FONT]
| The name Pollitt was brought to England by the Normans when they conquered the country in 1066. The ancestors of the Pollitt family lived in Pawlett, a small village 4 miles (6 km) north of Bridgwater, in the Sedgemoor district of the English county of Somerset. The Pollitt family claim descent from Hercules de Tournon but "he appears to be a mythic personage." [1] This reference continues: "it is really descended from the Norman house of D'Aunou. Baldric Teutonicus, living c. 900 was ancestor [of this family]. […] The surname Pollitt was first found in Somerset, at Pawlett (Paulet.) It was here that "in the reign of Henry I, Fulco de Alnou had a grant from the Crown of Grandon. He had two sons: 1. Walter de Poeleth, who in 1203 paid a fine in Somerset [and] 2. Robert de Polet, mentioned in Buckinghamshire 1198.
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[FONT=Liberation Serif, serif] If [/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif]
Pollitt[/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif] is an evolved form of the diverse [/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif]
Polet, [/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif]
Paulet, Pawlett, De Poeleth[/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif], it evoks the Pow-Aled subregion near Saint-Malo, Northeastern Britanny, around Alet, Alan’[/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif]s[/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif] (ancestor of Stuart [/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif]lineage[/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif]) place of origin ; [/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif]but it doesn’t seem backed by the supposed ancestor Baldric Teutonicus - [/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif] [/FONT]
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[FONT=Liberation Serif, serif]à éditer[/FONT]
[FONT=Liberation Serif, serif]POMMEROY : [/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif]The name [/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif]
Pomeroy[/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif] was brought to
England in the great wave of migration following the
Norman Conquest of 1066. The Pomeroy family lived in
Devon. Their name, however, is a reference to [/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif]
La Pommeroie,[/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif]
Normandy, the family's place of residence prior to the
Norman Conquest of
England in 1066. The name of this place translates as from the French as [/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif]
apple orchard.[/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif] [/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif]The family was the "Castellans of La Pommeraie,
Normandy (De Gerville, Anciens Châteaux de la Manche). 'A fragment of this Norman stronghold still remains in the Cinglais, not far from Falaise. [/FONT]
[FONT=Liberation Serif, serif]PORRETT / PORRITT : [/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif]
Porrett[/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif] is one of the many names that the
Normans brought with them when they conquered
England in 1066. The name Porrett came from the name Peter. This name was a[/FONT]
[FONT=Liberation Serif, serif]baptismal name that was originally derived from the French name Pierre and was a diminutive of the name [/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif]
Parrot,[/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif] which means [/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif]
little Peter. [/FONT]Interestingly, the English word "parrot," for the talking bird, was not in use until the 16th century, much later than this word's use as a surname.
Another source claims the name was originally "De Perrott from Castel Perrott, which he built in Armorica (Brittany), and the town of Perrott, one league from it. He came over to
England in 957, and obtained some lands in Wessex, on a river which changed its name to the Perrot (now corrupted to the Parret), in Somersetshire." Remotely, both came from the same diminutive name.
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[FONT=Liberation Serif, serif]PORTER : The surname Porter was first found in
Hampshire, where Hugh de Port was listed in the
Domesday Book as a major land holder. "Soon after the Conquest, Bicton Manor [Sidmouth, Devonshire] was granted to one of the Norman followers of William a certain William the Porter, whose duty it was to keep the door of the gaol, and who held Bicton by this service. This tenure continued for some 700 years, down to the year 1787; and the early owners of the manor-house at different periods took the names Portitor, De Porta, De la Porte, and Janitor." - form of the French ‘portier’ = [/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif]
doorman, doorkeeper [/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif]-[/FONT]
[FONT=Liberation Serif, serif]POTTER : form of French ‘potier’, at those times [/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif]
pots maker [/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif]or[/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif]
drogist – [/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif]
came after the Norman conquest - [/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif]The surname Potter was first found in various shires and counties throughout Britain. Search for the earliest record of the name revealed Seuard le potter who was listed in 1172 in
Lincolnshire. A few years later, Geoffrey Poter was listed in the
Curia Regis Rolls of
Essex in 1196 and John le Potier was listed in the
Pipe Rolls of
Essex in 1197. Lambert le Pottur was listed in the
Curia Regis Rolls of
Essex in 1214.[/FONT]