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Tom Caldwell
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"Haar" is interesting. Being Scots born but leaving as a child I find it a new word in my lexicon but I am quite aware of the nature of "hoar frost" which I presume is a related use of what must be a Norse word.
Funnily enough only half an hour earlier I was mentally debating the word origin of one of my wife's more distant ancestors: "Horridge" which I think I fairly took to be "Hoar-Ridge". But now that I have been introduced to "the Haar" perhaps "Haar-Ridge" might be closer and may have come from a ridge close to the sea periodically enveloped by the Haar. As hoar frost can occur anywhere when the conditions are right I think that living near a ridge by the sea often enveloped by a Haar might have become a locality-based name for those that lived there.
Thanks, one of life's little curiosities and co-incidences.
For Tim, my condolences, our highest temperatures this year here in the far-north have been 32C, cool sea breezes have kept everything normal and pleasant but it has been very dry (sunny, etc). But now that we have had an overcast week with some light rain not heavy enough to cool the ground and with a cloud ceiling as well and little wind. Regularly occurring 27C has produced killer humidity. Can't win them all I guess.
Tom
Funnily enough only half an hour earlier I was mentally debating the word origin of one of my wife's more distant ancestors: "Horridge" which I think I fairly took to be "Hoar-Ridge". But now that I have been introduced to "the Haar" perhaps "Haar-Ridge" might be closer and may have come from a ridge close to the sea periodically enveloped by the Haar. As hoar frost can occur anywhere when the conditions are right I think that living near a ridge by the sea often enveloped by a Haar might have become a locality-based name for those that lived there.
Thanks, one of life's little curiosities and co-incidences.
For Tim, my condolences, our highest temperatures this year here in the far-north have been 32C, cool sea breezes have kept everything normal and pleasant but it has been very dry (sunny, etc). But now that we have had an overcast week with some light rain not heavy enough to cool the ground and with a cloud ceiling as well and little wind. Regularly occurring 27C has produced killer humidity. Can't win them all I guess.
Tom
Blow-in
Active Member
Tom,
Haar is really an east coast word. Like a lot of east coast words it probably links to the low countries and perhaps 'Harig' which is Dutch for a cold and damp mist. I've also seen it as 'har' but 'haar' is the more common spelling in Scotland.
You've proababy found this already http://www.houseofnames.com/horridge-family-crest
Richard
Haar is really an east coast word. Like a lot of east coast words it probably links to the low countries and perhaps 'Harig' which is Dutch for a cold and damp mist. I've also seen it as 'har' but 'haar' is the more common spelling in Scotland.
You've proababy found this already http://www.houseofnames.com/horridge-family-crest
Richard
Tom Caldwell
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Blow-in":2ov3duio said:
Thanks Richard,
Quite remote, my wife's GGGrandmother was a Horridge and several maternal branch lines away. They were from Lancashire. Lots of Scots went to Lancashire for work. I did not realise it was a Scots name.
My own maternal grandfather was from Cowdenbeath in Fife and he had a lot of Fife-dialect names different from us South-West Coasters.
With all credit to the various sites selling stuff, I have been into genealogy for a long time and whilst I listen to what they say, they are not always accurate and I like to cross reference with my own research. Orrock is a long way from Horridge and sounds more like a Scots bowdlerisation of O'Rourke and "ridge" does sound a bit more English than Scots "rig". But for the moment the information you linked, for which I am truly grateful, is more than I have ever bothered myself about.
Even my own surname is prone to 1001 supposed variations and can be sheeted home to a number of locations. But the source of our family in Scotland is the Renfrew/Ayrshire border area where they have hung about in some numbers since at least the 1200's and kept more or less the same spelling.
Tom