The name CARR is Scottish. Not Irish or English, although it is possible that some of our ancestors migrated from Ireland or England on their passage to America. The name Carr is derived from the name KERR. Our ancestors came from the Scottish lowlands, and as such, those with the name Kerr or Carr are a family not a clan. Some other spellings of the original name include Ker, Karr, Carr and Carre. There is no gaelic spelling as the Kerr/Carr's were not gaelic speakers. This unusual name, with the variants Casborne, Casburn, Casbon and Caseborne, is of English locational origin from Casebourne Wood in Hythe, Kent. The name derives form the Olde English "Caerse" meaning "cress" - an element usually found with endings indicating the growth of the plant in water. In this case, the second element is the Olde English "burna", a stream. The surname from this source is first recorded in the latter half of the 13th Century. A Coat of Arms was granted to the Casebourne family of Kent. Sable (black) two chevrons between three martlets or (gold). The Martlet indicates one who subsists on wings of Virture and Merit, having little land to rest on. One, Elizabeth Casebourne, daughter of John and Lydia Casebourne was christened on June 18th 1727 in Wadsworth, London. The name is also spelt Casborne. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of John de (of) Caseburn. which was dated 1275, in the "Hundred Rolls of Kent". during the reign of King Edward 1, known as "The Hammer of the Scots", 1272 - 1307. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling. The most researched line of our family. Several of our family have started researching their family and we are beginning to connect with each other to bring the whole story together. The best source for the Cobbs family line going back to the first known Cobb is the database at Cobb and Cobbs. This site was originally started by Michael Cobb with nine separate Cobb/Cobbs family lines in North America documented. Sadly, Mr. Cobb has passed away but with the great family of Cobbs the site continues. The site has supported a DNA Analysis research project for several years. Please go to Cobb and Cobbs or you can check out the Cobb and Cobbs DNA work at the FamilyTreeDNA site. The surname Daniel was first found in Gloucestershire where Alicia Daniel was one of the first records of the name was found temp. Henry III to Edward I. Simon Danyel was later found in Somerset. "The church [of Beckingon, Somerset] contains the remains of Samuel Daniel, poet-laureate and historian, who died here in 1619." Some of the family were found in Yorkshire in early times. The Yorkshire Poll Tax Rolls of 1379 list: Beatrix Danyell; Robertus Danyell; Thomas Daniell; Oliva Danyl; and Teffan Danyll. "In Devonshire the name of Daniel is now best represented in the Holsworthy district. There was a John Daneyll, of "Brighe broke," in the hundred of Wonford, Devon, in the 13th century." Up in Scotland, the surname recorded in Aberdeen as both a forename and surname. "Daniel, son of Herleuine, witnessed a charter by Uchtred, son of Fergus, lord of Galloway, c. 1166, and another early individual of the name gave origin to the ancient barony of Danzielstoun in the parish of Kilmalcolm. By the Gaels this name was adopted as an equivalent for Donald." A variety of distinguished and notable names have emerged from the beautiful and historical Italian region of Tuscany, including the notable surname Fiorini. During the Middle Ages, as populations grew and travel between regions became more frequent, the people of Tuscany, who were originally known only by a single name, found it necessary to adopt a second name to identify themselves and their families. This process of adopting fixed hereditary surnames in Italy began in the 10th and 11th centuries, but it was not completed until the modern era. The development of Italian hereditary surnames followed general principles and were characterized by derivatives from one's given name. The patronymic surname, which is derived from the father's given name, was one of the most common name types found in the region of Tuscany. This system of name-making was widely used because it linked well with the existing Feudal System and during the Christian era, many people named their children after saints and biblical figures. The surname Fiorini came from the personal name "Fiore," which is derived from the Latin "flos floris," which means "flower blossom." The oldest record of the surname dates to 1197 in the Eynsham Cartulary of Oxfordshire, where it appears in the form Heise. There are nineteen coats of arms assumed by or granted to individuals with this or a similar surname. Though primarily a surname, "Hayes" sometimes appears as a given name in census records. In England, Hayes arose as a locational surname, associated with one of the several places named or suffixed -Hay, -Hays, -Hayes, etc., such as locations in Kent, Middlesex, Devon and Dorset. Such place names had two origins, one based on the Old English haes (brushwood, underwood) and the other based on horg (enclosure) or hege (hedge). The distribution of Hayes in Great Britain in 1881 and 1998 is similar and restricted to areas of England well separated from Scotland and showing some penetration into Wales. This surname has gained in popularity in the century between 1881 and 1998, but remains at a rank of less than 150 and a frequency lower than that in the United States and some other countries of the Commonwealth. In Scotland, Hayes is a Scoto-Norman surname, a direct translation of the Normans' locational surname "de la Haye", meaning "of La Haye", La Haye ("the hedge") being the name of several towns on the Cotentin peninsula of Normandy, France. The first Norman namebearer to arrive in Scotland was William II de la Haye in the time of the Norman invasion. Clan Hay descends from him Johnson is a surname of English or Scottish origin. The name itself is a patronym of the given name John, literally meaning "son of John". The name John derives from Latin Johannes, which is derived through Greek from Hebrew Yohanan, meaning "Yahweh has favoured". The name has been extremely popular in Europe since the Christian era as a result of it being given to St John the Baptist, St John the Evangelist and nearly one thousand other Christian saints. Johnson is the second most common in the United States and 154th most common in the world. As a Scottish family name, Johnson is occasionally a variation of Johnston, a habitational name. The surname is one of the native Irish surnames that come from the Irish Gaelic language. The original Gaelic form of the name McGahey is "Mac Eachaidh," from the personal name Eachaidh, which is Anglicized as Aghy. It is cognate with Eochaigh, which is Anglicized as the once-common Christian name Oghy. The surname McGahey was first found in the county of Cork the ancient Kingdom of Deis Muin (Desmond), located on the southwest coast of Ireland in the province of Munster, where they held a family seat from ancient times. The prestigious surname Rodrigues or Rodriguez originated in Spain, a country which has figured prominently in world affairs for hundreds of years. Rodrigues means Son of Rodrigo. It is patronymic in origin, deriving from the name of the father of the initial bearer, and its roots can be traced back to the Visigoths, the Germanic tribe who ruled Spain between the mid-5th and early 8th centuries. Rodrigues is derived from the Germanic personal name "Hrodric," which is composed of the elements "hrod," meaning "renown," and "ric," meaning "power." Thus, the name Rodrigues combines this personal name with the patronymic suffix "-ez," and refers to "a famous ruler." There are at least two major publications of Stapleton Geneology and history, the best known is Dr. William Columbus Stapleton's Genealogical Research. Most of our family history is found in and around Eastern Kentucky and across the Big Sandy River in Virginia but, since the early 1800's the Stapletons have moved across this nation both north and south. Villasana is a Spanish surname from a village in Northern Spain, Villasana de Mena. We have only just started looking at the history of the Villasana family in North America.