For
those of you who are
interested in
what NORSE means the
Dictionary list it as the
following:
"Norse" adj. of Scandinavia or its inhabitants
Norway * n the language of Norway "Norseman" any
of the ancient Scandinavian people, the VIKINGS
THE
MEANING OF TAIT
This
article which comes from
a book entitled,
"Surnames of
Scotland" by George
F. Black,
PHD, pub. 1946. This is a
direct copy of the text.
"Tait was originally
a nickname. Bede, tells
us that Ethelberga,
daughter of Ethelbert,
King of
Kent, was called
'Tate'(fem) and nine
individuals named
'Tata'(masc.) are
recorded in Birch's
Cartularium Saxonicum.
The word, meaning 'glad'
or 'cheerful,' occurs in
'Old Norse', as teitr,
and as a proper name,
Teitr, occurs several
times in the Icelandic
Landnamabok.
A
debt due by the king is
recorded paid to Thomas
dictust Tayt in 1329.
Between
1362 and 1370 there were
a number of entries of
payment of pension to
John Tayt,
Clerk, who appears to
have been connected with
the
hospital of Montrose.
Alexander Tayt was
burgess of Edinburgh,
1381. Adam Tayte who had
a safe conduct to travel
in
England in 1424, may be
the Adam Tayt, scutifer,
a charter witness in
Paisley, 1432.
Andrew
Tait was master of the
Flesher Craft of
Edinburgh,1490. And
another
Andrew Tayt was one of
the perambulators of the
boundaries of
Yochry and Achbrady,
1492. Robert Tait was
tenant of the land
of Wydsyd in 1532
(Rental), Christie Tett
and Donald Taitt were
tenants under
Abbey of Kelso,1567. The
name also appears in
Orkney in 1575.
A
family of the name were
proprietors of the barony
of Charters in
1605, and Tait of Prin,
an ancient family of
Tweeddale, ended
in two heiresses,
Margaret and Anne, one of
whom married a Horsburgh
of that Ilk.
Archibold Campbell Tait
(1811-1822), born in
Edinburgh, and became
Archbishop of
Canterbury."
1.
Northumbria (aka Tate)
2. Tweed/Borders
3. Shetland/Orkneys
I
also believe Tait meant
"jolly" or
"cheerful" in
Old Norse so I presume
the 3
sources are unrelated but
derived from separate
"nicknames".
I
have the following
information for
Orkney/Shetland Taits
which was researched by
Nicholas Cran-Sinclair
"Drawing
on the available
historical research
sources such as Craven,
Peterkin's Rentals.
J Clouston's Records of
the Earldom of Orkney and
Roland
William St Clair's The
Clair of the Isles, these
native
families of the Orkney
and Shetland Islands
(and, to a lesser extent,
Caithness)
are the descendants of
the Initial Norse Viking
colonists who
consolidated and extended
the Northern Territories
of the Orcadian 'jarldom'
under the
leadership of the family
of Jarl Rognvald 'the
Wise' of
Moeri and Rhomasdahl in
Norway and, more
particularly,
by his natural son, Jarl
'Turf' Einar - so-called
because he taught people
how to burn peat.
The
majority of these
families have taken their
names from their main
place of residence
or land-ownership within
the Northern Territories
of either the Orkney or
Shetland Islands and I
have, therefore,
separated them into
groups.
The
first Group is of the
senior native families
whose ancestors were the
significant land-holding
nobility of either
Orcadian or Shetlander
ruling assemblies or
councils
(known as 'lawthing') and
were regularly mentioned
in the old records as
'gudmen'
(hereditary gentelemen
odallers) lawrightmen' or
'lawrikmen' (regular
parish district
assizemen)
'lendirneb' (landed men)
and 'roitmen' (hereditary
odaller/council men)
These were, in
alpahbetical order,
Berstane, Clouston, Cragy
(Craigie), Cromarty,
Corrigal,
Flett, Heddle, HALCRO,
Ireland, Kirkness,
LINKLATER, Ness (later
Petereson,
Petrie, Tulloch) Paplay,
Rendall, Scarth (Formerly
Harraldson/Bolt) Scalter
and Yenstay.
The
second Group is made up
of the lesser native
families of putative
Norse
Viking origin
whose profile became
slightly more prominent
after the 1470 - 1471
cession of the islands to
the Scottish Crown and
the subsequent tyrranical
period
under the Stewart Earls
of Orkney which was in
dark and direct contrast
to the
benevolent rule of the
Sinclair 'Jarls' . This
larger second Group
included TAIT,"
A special Thanks
goes to:
Murry Tait and
John S. Tait
Who gave us permisson on April
1, 2000 to have
this
information placed on our
site for the research of
the Surname of Tait
THE
MEANING OF TATE
The
surname TATE is of
patronymic origin, being
derived from the first
name of the
father of the initial
bearer. In this instance,
the name TATE is
derived from either the
personal name TAIT
which derives from the
Old Norse term
"teitr" meaning
"jolly or
cheerful" or from
the old English term
"tat" which
some believe to
mean "dear".
The first recorded bearer
of the name TATE as a
surname was one
Uluric Tates who was
mentioned in the
"Feudal documents
from the Abby of Bury
Saint Edmunds" in
the year1095.
In 1279 one Richard Tate
appears in the Hundred
Rolls for Comwall.
In
Scotland the name was
first recorded in the
14th century with a
reference to one
Thomas dictus (called)
Tayt, who was recorded in
the
Exchequer Rolls of
Scotland for the year
1329.
Between 1362-1370 there
are a number of payments
to John Tayt, a clerk,
seemingly connected to
the hospital of Montrose.
Andrew Tait
was master of the Flesher
craft of Edinburgh in
1490.
In Ireland bearers the
name Tate are of either
Scottish or English
descent
The name in Ireland is
mainly, although not
exclusively found in the
province of
Ulser in the north of the
county where many of the
people are descended from
the English and Lowland
Scottish who were settled
there during the
Plantations of
the 17th century.
Notable
bearers of the name Tate
include Sir Henry Tate
(1819-1899), first baron
of the name who patented
a device for compressing
sugar into cubes and who
is responsible
for founding the Tate
Gallery in London in
1897.
Also Nahum Tate
(1652-1715), the
Irish poet who is
credited with
composingthe hymn
" While shepherds
watched their flocks by
night".
The
arms were granted to the
Tates of Drogheda (Ireland)
by
The Ulster Office in 1660
.
Blazon of
Arms:
Per fess argent
and gules; a pale
counterchanged three
storks sable.
Crest:
A lion passant azure;
charged on the
shoulder with a
fleur-de-lis or.
Motto:
Thincke and Thancke
Translation:
Think and Thank
Origin:
Scotland
The
above records on the
surname of TATE
was abstracted by:
Frances
P. Limozaine
June 03, 2000
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