meaning of name Grandinson

crayspond · Post by **crayspond** » Sat Jan 03, 2009 6:27 pm

Hello Everyone,

Happy New Year to all.
Looking through my files i wondered what or where the name Grandinson comes from - any ideas?

Ailsa

LesleyB · Post by **LesleyB** » Sat Jan 03, 2009 7:13 pm

Hi Ailsa
I'm not clear from your post if this is a surname, first name or a placename? Can you give us an example in context, please?

As a guess, I suspect it may perhaps be Scandinavian in origin.

Best wishes
Lesley

Post by **paddyscar** » Sat Jan 03, 2009 7:26 pm

Hi Crayspond:

I didn't have any success in finding this name in any of the birth registers or OPR. There weren't any hits on the census reports 1841-1901.

Perhaps it was originally grandison which appears 1120 times in the census and 1014 times in the birth registry and OPR.

I also checked several surname origins databases online without success. Perhaps someone else will have more luck. I checked (in addition to others)

http://www.whatsinaname.net/

http://www.surnamedb.com

http://dictionary.reference.com

http://www.last-names.net/surname.asp

Frances

crayspond · Post by **crayspond** » Sat Jan 03, 2009 11:16 pm

Hi,

Sorry about that Lesley, it is a surname - it was my husband's gt gt grandmother's maiden surname. On the marriage cert it is spelled Grandinson and also on his gt grandmother's death cert it has her name also spelling as Grandinson.
Frances, thanks for the links - I will certainly try the variation when i look in earnest for them. I was curious to know where the name might have originated, usually when it has son at the end it means son of.... but son of Grandin ??

Ailsa

Post by **Ina** » Sat Jan 03, 2009 11:48 pm

Hi Ailsa,

There is no record of the name Grandinson in Blacks "Surnames of Scotland" book.

Regards,

Ina

Post by **Tracey** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 12:06 am

LesleyB wrote:Hi Ailsa
I'm not clear from your post if this is a surname, first name or a placename? Can you give us an example in context, please?

As a guess, I suspect it may perhaps be Scandinavian in origin.

Best wishes
Lesley

As Lesley says.............If you put the sir name in the search engine almost all the results seem to be Nordic.

WilmaM · Post by **WilmaM** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 12:19 am

If it is Scandinavian then it's likely to have 'EN' instead of 'ON' at the end.

So be wary when searching.

Currie · Post by **Currie** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 12:37 am

Hello Ailsa,

On SP, FreeBMD, World Connect, 19C newspapers & older Google books this spelling brings up a zero. On Google and newer books and Family Search things are looking very Scandinavian, but mainly Swedish. There’s a smattering on Ancestry, including passenger lists, their departure - destinations may provide further clues.

But I don’t think that proves anything especially when the spelling is so close to the not so uncommon Grandison. Were there Grandisons in the area they came from and have any siblings turned up and if so how did they spell their name, and how did it develop over time.

Was the earlier certificate back in the days when spelling was more flexible and literacy was not so universal. Chances are that for the second certificate the family just copied the spelling from the first.

Just some thoughts,
Alan

Post by **Tracey** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 9:34 am

WilmaM wrote:If it is Scandinavian then it's likely to have 'EN' instead of 'ON' at the end.

So be wary when searching.

I thought the Nordic entries spelling would probably have a sson rather than son but only one did.

Thrall · Post by **Thrall** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 4:02 pm

Originally, Nordic patronymics had a genitive "s" then the first letter "s" of son. As surnames were introduced, the ending progressed to either "ssen", unchanged "sson" but not a patronymic, then simply "son" or "sen" and of course pretty well anything else with even "z" coming in.

So anything goes!

Montrose Budie may wish to put his oar in for good measure.

Guid hunting,

Thrall