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Surname Etymology and Meaning of LENNOX

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(origin: Gaelic. Local) From the County of Lennox, Scotland. The original name was Leven-ach, the field on the Leven, from the river Leven, which flows through the county, called in Latin Levinia. The river was so called from Llyfn, in the Welsh, which signifies a smooth, placid stream. Leven-achs, for a while spelt and written Levenax, and finally Lennox. Arkil, a Saxon, a baron of Northumbria, who took refuge from the vengeance of the Norman William under the protection of Malcom Canmore, appears to have been the founder of the Lennox family. Source: An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names With an Essay on their Derivation and Import (1857).

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(origin: Gaelic. Local) From the County of Lennox, Scotland. The original name was Leven-ach, the field on the Leven, from the river Leven, which flows through the county, called in Latin Levinia. The river was so called from Llyfn, in the Welsh, which signifies a smooth, placid stream. Leven-achs, for a while spelt and written Levenax, and finally Lennox. Arkil, a Saxon, a baron of Northumbria, who took refuge from the vengeance of the Norman William under the protection of Malcom Canmore, appears to have been the founder of the Lennox family.

Source: An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names With an Essay on their Derivation and Import (1857).

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