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in reply to a message by Steno
Still about this subject, I think you can find 'mixed heritage surnames' in a lot of European countries and maybe all over the world too, though I don't really know much about non-European surnames..
In Italy, for example, we have a big number of such surnames and they got some very different origins - it depends on the different regions or areas where they are from. Just think of Italian surnames like Giraudo and Rinaudo (from French Giraud and Renaud, Gerald and Reynold in English) or Calò and Macrì (from Greek Kalos and Makris, Good/Fine and Long in English) or Grassia and Sanges (from Spanish Garcia and Sanchez) or Modafferi and Vadalà (from Arab Muzafar and Abdallah) or still Crevatin and Staniscia (from Slavic Hrvatin and Staniša) etc..
In Italy, for example, we have a big number of such surnames and they got some very different origins - it depends on the different regions or areas where they are from. Just think of Italian surnames like Giraudo and Rinaudo (from French Giraud and Renaud, Gerald and Reynold in English) or Calò and Macrì (from Greek Kalos and Makris, Good/Fine and Long in English) or Grassia and Sanges (from Spanish Garcia and Sanchez) or Modafferi and Vadalà (from Arab Muzafar and Abdallah) or still Crevatin and Staniscia (from Slavic Hrvatin and Staniša) etc..
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Fascinating subject: Slavic-German, Lithuanian-Polish, Turkish-Armenian, Irish-English.
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well my family history is we came from french but when the queen order everyone to go to one church they move to england. there even a street in french that has my last name. but i think when they move to england they add a few letters because it was originally dilliston but then in england they add the e in the end. but there even a computer company in europe name dillistone and there is a british famous film director name marcus dillistone. i was originally goes to have my character be french heritage but i wanna to have robin hood be his ancestor and robin hood was british.
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Dilliston(e) is simply a variant of the placename Dilston in Northumberland which was first recorded as Deuelestune and Diueliston. It comes from Old English tun 'farmstead' and a Celtic compound meaning 'black stream' so it is a mixed language name though there's no French in there.
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