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Corjeag Surname Definition:

Is an attempt at translating the English Cavendish (imagined to mean ‘giving dish'!).

'Curjeag, s.f., an alms dish. . . . This word is used for the surname of Cavendish (in Manks), hut more probably giving dish.' At the end of the sixteenth century a family called Cavendish settled in Michael, where they held property in 1583 (vide Liber Vastarum), and from 1611 (when the register commences) to 1650 their births, marriages, and deaths are duly entered under that name, but after that time, though the family is known not to have died out, the name disappears, and Corjeag entirely supplants it, the two names having co-existed since 1611, Corjeag is still almost confined to Michael, occurring rarely in the adjacent parishes, and not at ail elsewhere.

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Isle of Man91:6,030597

Corjeag Surname Meaning

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Is an attempt at translating the English Cavendish (imagined to mean ‘giving dish'!).

'Curjeag, s.f., an alms dish. . . . This word is used for the surname of Cavendish (in Manks), hut more probably giving dish.' At the end of the sixteenth century a family called Cavendish settled in Michael, where they held property in 1583 (vide Liber Vastarum), and from 1611 (when the register commences) to 1650 their births, marriages, and deaths are duly entered under that name, but after that time, though the family is known not to have died out, the name disappears, and Corjeag entirely supplants it, the two names having co-existed since 1611, Corjeag is still almost confined to Michael, occurring rarely in the adjacent parishes, and not at ail elsewhere.

— Manx Names (1890) by Arthur William Moore
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