This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
What’s in Your Name at Lee College
Lee College students explore the origins of surnames from towns and signs to occupations and nicknames. Examples include Beck from a brook, Baldwin from bold friends, Rose via the Sign of the Rose, and Walker from a cloth worker, noting origins and cultural links.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Berg
Don
Ham
Worth
Dunn — “Brown
Campbell
Cickshanks
Taylor
Barber
Spencer
Steward
Smith
Ward
Wright
Bishop
The
Bell
John Bell
Lee College
Johnny Beck
England
Maidie
Baldwin
Baldivin
Bealdwine
Hindman
Bennie
Farmer
Tillman
Harrower
Bee Gee
Dick Gordon
Don Walker
Walker
Northumberland
Dellquest
Withycombe