What ancestery for the last name Lane?

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What ancestery for the last name Lane?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Lane
English: topographic name for someone who lived in a lane, Middle English, Old English lane, originally a narrow way between fences or hedges, later used to denote any narrow pathway, including one between houses in a town.
Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic ó Laighin ‘descendant of Laighean’, a byname meaning ‘spear’, or ‘javelin’.
Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic ó Luain ‘descendant of Luan’, a byname meaning ‘warrior’.
Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic ó Liatháin (see Lehane).
Southern French: variant of Laine.
Possibly also a variant of Southern French Lande.

Place of
Origin Lane Immigrants
Ireland 1066
England 701
Great Britain 188
Germany 146
Preussen 23
Scotland 23 Source(s):
www.ancestry.com You should have 16 surnames among your great great grandparents, unless you double up on Smith, Johnson or Jones, or someone married a cousin.

If you are in the USA and trace your family tree, you might find an immigrant who came through Ellis Island yearning to be free, a bootlegger, a flapper, a great uncle who died in the muddy trenches of France in 1917. You may find someone who marched off to fight in the Civil War (Maybe two, one blue, one grey), a German who became Pennsylvania "Dutch", a Huguenot, an Irish "Potato Famine" immigrant. You might find someone who married at 18 and took care of his family with musket, plow and axe in the howling wilderness we now call Ohio.

In the UK your chances of finding a homesteader are less, but your chances of finding that great uncle who served in WWI are better.

In Australia you may find someone who got a free ride to a new home, courtesy of the Government and HM Prison ship "Hope".

Your grandfather with that surname may have married an Italian, a Cherokee, a Swede. You'll never know if this is the only question you ask. English