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Home ==> Surnames ==> Heighes
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| Surname origins | Location Derived from the location where an ancestor originated or Nickname Derived from the nickname of an ancestor, describing their personality or appearance |
| Meaning |
'Dweller
by the enclosure' |
| Geographic origins | n/a |
| Language | Old English |
| Sources | Reaney & Wilson, A Dictionary of English Surnames (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1958) |
| My
line of the Heighes family can be traced back to a yeoman Edward Heighes
who lived in the East Worldham area of Hampshire towards the end of
the 17th century. Several generations of the Heighes family are buried
at the church in the village. My line of the Heighes family - at least two generations who were agricultural labourers - were later connected with the nearby villages of Selborne and Empshott and the Sussex village of Northchapel before moving to Chiddingfold in Surrey where in 1935 my grandmother married a Bradley. |
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