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Hey everybody, my last name is Ivanhoe.I've been wondering what nationialty Ivanhoe is for a long time. I am a white man of Black Dutch,Bohemian,Czech,English,Scottish and German ancestry. I also could have other things in me that I do not know about.
Thanks in advance.
"...IVAN was the form of John, so I did not bother to research that more, this is probably right. I finally ran down the "hoe" part; it is not Celtic, it is old English (Anglo-Saxon) which makes sense, since Scott's character Ivanhoe was Saxon, and it means a bend, or curve, probably in a stream or river - so what we probably have is "John's Bend" - odd that the form "Ivan" is used, though, rather than something more like Johann"
"...IVAN was the form of John, so I did not bother to research that more, this is probably right. I finally ran down the "hoe" part; it is not Celtic, it is old English (Anglo-Saxon) which makes sense, since Scott's character Ivanhoe was Saxon, and it means a bend, or curve, probably in a stream or river - so what we probably have is "John's Bend" - odd that the form "Ivan" is used, though, rather than something more like Johann"
Very interesting.It's kind of weird because John is my favorite boy name. I thought it was English or possibly Scottish. Thank you very much.
Could the name have been adopted here by an immigrant ancestor?
Never had much luck with Ancestry.com. The earliest Ivanhoe that we know of is my grandfather's father. We don't know where he or his family was from. He married the daughter of a German farmer who was my Papa's mom in Lockhart, Texas but they split up.
2. People who danced when they heard the Spanish had expelled the Moors. This "Moorish dancers" became "Morris dancers" and latter simply the Morris
Sorry but that last one sounds like an old wives tail. From Wikipedia:
In England and Scotland the name can be derived from the Old Frenchpersonal nameMaurice which was introduced to Britain by the Normans. It can also be derived from the LatinMauritius, a derivative of Maurus. This name was used by several early Christian saints. The name was also used for someone who had a swarthy complexion.[1] The first Morrises in the British Isles were record as living in the bordering counties of Monmouthshire, Wales and Herefordshire, England by the Norman Conquest of 1066 AD.[3] Additionally the name Morris is of Anglo-Norman origin deriving from the 'De Marisco' line.
Hey everybody, my last name is Ivanhoe.I've been wondering what nationialty Ivanhoe is for a long time.
Ellis Island list only 2 immigrants with this surname, both from Belgium.
To me the surname sounds Slavic, as in many Slavic languages Ivan is a frequent name (John). I found that Slovaks have Ivanho surname while we here in Croatia have a lot of Ivanko.
I think Ivanhoe is an adopted name taken on by an immigrant with a surname difficult on American ears. The novel of the same name by Sir Walter Scott was very popular at the time of early waves of European immigrants to North America.
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