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Merrymouth Surname Definition:

This surname is derived from a nickname. 'a ready laugher,' one given to merriment.

John Merrymouth. Camden Society Publications.

Richard Merymouth. Riley's Memorials of London.

Merrymouth Surname Meaning

From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history

This surname is derived from a nickname. 'a ready laugher,' one given to merriment.

John Merrymouth. Camden Society Publications.

Richard Merymouth. Riley's Memorials of London.

— A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames (1896) by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley

MERRYMONTH: William Merimontht witnessed a testament inventory of Catharine Lauder, 1515 (Swinton, p. xci). Perhaps a misreading of Menymouth, a name recorded by Lower and Bardsley. There is a Merrymouth near Dunlop, Ayrshire.

— The Surnames of Scotland (1946) by George Fraser Black (1866-1948)

MERRYMOWTH: From the expression of that feature. This name is found in Bury Wills., kc. Camd. Soc.

— Patronymica Britannica (1860) by Mark Antony Lower

MERRYMOWTH: From Marmoutier, a town of France, dep. Bas-Rhin; or from some place at the mouth of a river called the Mer or Mar.

— Ludus Patronymicus (1868) by Richard Stephen Charnock
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