Places & things named for ancestors

[Nick Carver]

A few bits and pieces - Carver's Carr, a wood in Norfolk near to the original family farm. Through other branches of the family, there are two hamlets in the Gosforth area of Newcastle by the name of Bulman and Hazelrigg that take their name from the families that owned the land. I have both families in my tree but have yet to prove a definitive link with the land owners. The probability is high as both names are not found too widely in the area. Somehow I doubt if my May ancestors had the month named after them though.

[Grothenwell]

I believe the Northeast Aberdeenshire village of Lumsden was named after the Lumsden Lairds. However the name of the Leslie Barons came from the village of Leslie. It's hard sometimes to know what came first (the chicken or the egg

Grothenwell

[tabitha]

Thanks Tabitha,
That has given me a bit of a start.  I think I will delve a little now.  No doubt named for one of my illustrious ancestors!!! (who didn't even come from there!)
Thank you.  Sue

Sue, maybe your ancestors were sooooo rich that they owned big chunks of the south west of England, never visited themselves only ever sent their servants into the wilderness to collect the rent  (Well, you never know!!)

Tabitha 

[islander]

Many people have told me that Oregan is named after the Organ family that went there from Devon/Cornwall, I haven't found the connection yet though. My Hamilton name, well, just too many to mention, but, sadly, again no direct connection. Drummond castle?  it is in the correct place.

[samesizedfeet]

I have a couple.

Linkson Street in Burra, Australia is named after part of the Linkson family that went out there mining in the 1840s. As yet we can't pinpoint which bit of the family their father comes from but as all the other Linksons I've found across the world descend from the same family in London we've adopted the Australian ones in hope that eventually we'll get them firmly tied in

Lysterfield near melbourne is named after William Saurin Lyster who married my 5 x great aunt Georgina (Georgianna) Hodson. He was big in opera and she was an actress.

[Berlin-Bob]

As always, I am still trying to find my Hessies. Every so often, I have another look in Google, to see if there is anything new.

Apart from a couple of references to my profile in RootsChat I have also found the following places:

Hessie Town, in the Indian Peaks Wilderness Area, Colarado. Named after the founder's wife.
Not one of my Hessies !

A well-known hiking trail, the Hessie Trail starts from Hessie Town.
In the same area, for Rock-Climbers, there is also the Hessie Chimney.

Then there is Hessie's Sinkhole, a cave in Jamaica

The story goes that many years in the past, a woman named Hessie, in a terrible fit of depression brought on by a romance gone bad, had disappeared and was strongly suspected to have thrown herself down this deep shaft. It was known of by all for its bottomlessness and for being a gateway to oblivion. Hessie, prior to her vanishing, had threatened to do great harm to herself and a last long leap into this dread hole had been one of the options. When Hessie went missing, she went for good. No trace of her was ever found and it has long been believed that the deep sinkhole that I would descend into was where Hessie had ended her days.

http://www.jamaicancaves.org/hessies_030514.htm

Also not one of my Hessies, thankfully !!

But in a house in Germany, there is a "Hessie's Room" !! 
And that is named after my daughter, in fact, it is her room !!

So that is definitely named after my Hessie !!

[Wendi]

Berlin-Bob, said like a true Daddy, good on ya

[goggy]

G'Day All!
Ater that' Ford's' claim there's not much else to say is there?
BUT,by the Lord Harry I'm sticking my beak in!
The Prendergast+variation's,the Binstead+variation's,from the lowest to the highest,and if one is to believe other Genealogist's tree's;connected to every line with other connection's!!!
Wonder where they were when I was strapped for cash???
               Regard's Goggy.

[Shaznki]

The suburb of Hillsborough Auckland New Zealand was named by my 3rd Gt grandfather James Carlton Hill 1798-1858  who once owned and farmed the land.
Several streets in the area are names after family members.

Carlton Street ~ named after my 2nd Gt Grandfather Carlton Hollis James Hill 1823-1893

Frederick Street ~  named after Frederick Eldon Winchelsea Hill 1835-1912  James Carlton Hills son

Phillips Street ~ named after James Carlton Hills first wife Sarah Phillips who died in 1836. Later this street was realigned as the extention of Frederick Street then in 1951 renamed Bagley Street and its name on longer features in the borough

Filgate Street ~ named after his second wife Emma Maria Filgate in the 1880's


Warkworth New Zealand was founded by my other 3rd Gt Grandfather John Anderson Brown in 1853 he named it after Warkworth in Northumberland where some of his ancester came from.
his grave stone inscription reads
" John Anderson Brown who laid out and named this township of Warkworth in 1853"

His daughter Amelia Brown married carlton Hollis James Hill and Hill Street in Warkworth is named after them.