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Position:Home>Genealogy> Can anyone tell me the origin of these surnames...?Question:Reeves Wright Dilks Hight Hunnicitt Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Reeves Wright Dilks Hight Hunnicitt This is what www.ancestry.com has to say about the names Reeves patronymic from Reeve. topographic name for someone who lived on the margin of a wood, from a misdivision of the Middle English phrase atter eves ‘at the edge’ (Old English ?t t?re efese). Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford Wright English, Scottish, and northern Irish: occupational name for a maker of machinery, mostly in wood, of any of a wide range of kinds, from Old English wyrhta, wryhta ‘craftsman’ (a derivative of wyrcan ‘to work or make’). The term is found in various combinations (for example, Cartwright and Wainwright), but when used in isolation it generally referred to a builder of windmills or watermills. Common New England Americanized form of French Le Droit, a nickname for an upright person, a man of probity, from Old French droit ‘right’, in which there has been confusion between the homophones right and wright. Dilks English (chiefly East Midlands): patronymic from a pet form of the Middle English personal name Dillo (see Dillon). Hight English: topographic name for someone who lived at the top of a hill or on a piece of raised ground, from Middle English heyt ‘summit’, ‘height’. Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford Hunnicutt English: variant of Honeycutt. Hope this helps. Try this website www.surnamedb.com pretty much sounds like english |