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Question: Can anyone tell me the origins of my last name!? Jelks!. I've tried looking it up online!.!?
I've also asked family members and they can't tell me anything!. I am thinking it's German, but I don't know!.Www@QuestionHome@Com


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Surname: Jelks
Recorded in many forms as shown below, this is an English surname but one of French and Breton origins!. It is derived from the pre 7th century Old Breton personal name "Indicael", which is or rather was, composed of elements which translated as " The Lord is bountiful"!. Over the centuries the spelling in France changed to ledecael and later to Gicquel, and this survives in French naming as Jezequel!. An early king of Brittany who later abdicated and spent the last part of his life in a monastery, was called St!. Iedecal!. The modern English surname, found in its native areas of Devon and Cornwall, is also recorded in other areas including East Anglia and Yorkshire!. These places were settled by Breton followers of King William 1st, 1066 - 1086, after the Conquest of 1066!. Versions of the name spelling as surnames include Jelk, Jelks, Jekyll, Jiggle, Jewel, Jockle, Joel, Juhel and Joule!.!. The first recorded spelling of the family name in England is shown to be that of Richard Juel!. This was dated 1247, when he was a witness recorded in the register of the Bedfordshire Assizes, during the reign of King Henry 111rd of England, 1216 - 1272!. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation!. In England this was sometimes known as the Poll Tax!. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling!.
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Jelks Name Meaning and History
English: variant of Gilkes!.


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Gilkes Name Meaning and History
English (Oxfordshire, Warwickshire): patronymic from a pet form of the personal name Gill!.

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Gill Name Meaning and History
English: from a short form of the personal names Giles, Julian, or William!. In theory the name would have a soft initial when derived from the first two of these, and a hard one when from William or from the other possibilities discussed in 2 to 4 below!. However, there has been much confusion over the centuries!.
Northern English: topographic name for someone who lived by a ravine or deep glen, Middle English gil(l), Old Norse gil ‘ravine’!.
Scottish and Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Gille (Scottish), Mac Giolla (Irish), patronymics from an occupational name for a servant or a short form of the various personal names formed by attaching this element to the name of a saint!. See McGill!. The Old Norse personal name Gilli is probably of this origin, and may lie behind some examples of the name in northern England!.
Scottish and Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac An Ghoill (see Gall 1)!.
Norwegian: habitational name from any of three farmsteads in western Norway named Gil, from Old Norse gil ‘ravine’!.
Dutch: cognate of Giles!.
Jewish (Israeli): ornamental name from Hebrew gil ‘joy’!.
German: from a vernacular short form of the medieval personal name Aegidius (see Gilger)!.
Indian (Panjab): Sikh name, probably from Panjabi gil ‘moisture’, also meaning ‘prosperity’!. There is a Jat tribe that bears this name; the Ramgarhia Sikhs also have a clan called Gill!.

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Jelks
English: variant of Gilkes!.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

Gilkes
English (Oxfordshire, Warwickshire): patronymic from a pet form of the personal name Gill!.
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English: variant of Gilkes!.
English (Oxfordshire, Warwickshire): patronymic from a pet form of the personal name Gill!.
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Jelks last name is from a black man last name!.His name is john earl Jelks, take a look in the Internet you'll see!.!.!. So I would say your last name came from africa!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

i think it might be English (british)Www@QuestionHome@Com