From: Rick McCallister
Message: 57055
Date: 2008-04-08
> At 2:39:34 PM on Monday, April 7, 2008, RickI'm thinking of the surname Langley < Langlais,
> McCallister
> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > I see your point --there aren't too many places
> called
> > Waltons in Welsh speaking Wales , Scott is not a
> Highland
> > last name and Langley and Inglis aren't
> (originally)
> > English surnames.
>
> <Langley> is a purely English locative surname,
> toponymic
> from one of the many places named <Langley> or
> topographical
> for someone who lived by a long clearing or wood.
> Were you
> thinking of the French surnames <Langlais> and
> <Langlois>?
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> The specific form <Inglis> is of course Scottish,
> not
> English, but the surname <English> in general is
> linguistically English in origin and was used in
> quite a few
> contact settings in Great Britain. In the south it
> may
> sometimes have meant simply someone of native (as
> distinct
> from French) stock.
>
> Brian
>
>
>