NAME ORIGIN AND MEANINGS

• Dinn:

  English: from a short form of the personal name Dinis, a variant of Dennis.




• Erickson

  Respelling of a Scandinavian and North German patronymic derived from the Old Norse personal name Eiríkr, which is composed of ei ‘ever’, ‘always’ (or a reduced form of ein ‘one’, ‘only’) + rík ‘power’. The main forms are Erichsen, Eriksen, Ericsson, and Eriksson.




• Funk:

  German: nickname for a blacksmith, or for a small and lively or irritable individual, from Middle High German vunke ‘spark’.




• Gardner:

  English: reduced form of Gardener. Probably a translated form of German Gärtner (see Gartner).




• Hanson:

  Respelling of Scandinavian Hansen or Hansson. English (chiefly Midlands and northern England, especially Yorkshire): patronymic from Hann or the byname Hand.




• Polbrook:

  English:dwelt near the brook




• Rogers:

  English: patronymic from the personal name Roger.




• Selgeby:

  Norway: Taken from the farm on which the family lived. SelgebØe Norwegian Naming Patterns




• Sickles:

  Possibly an altered form of German Sickel (compare Sickels).




• Strickland:

  English: habitational name from a place in Cumbria, so called from Old English styr(i)c, steorc ‘bullock’ + land ‘land’, ‘pasture’.




• Sutton:

  English: habitational name from any of the extremely numerous places called Sutton, from Old English suð ‘south’ + tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.




• Thompson:

  English: patronymic from Thomas. Thompson is widely distributed throughout Britain, but is most common in northern England and northern Ireland. Americanized form of Thomsen.




• Westbrook:

  Altered spelling of Dutch Westbroek, a habitational name from a place so named near Utrecht.

Source: Ancestry.com in part.