Y DNA and English surnames

[Chris]

Does anyone know a comprehensive source of the origins of English surnames? I'm trying to discover a reliable source for my surname (Maude). I have a 67 marker result for my Y DNA and it would be interesting to correlate it to the surname information.

[watta]

is it realy english? it seems to be rather french ... have you read steve jones: the descent of man? it give some interesting answers about spreading surnames in Britain, event it´s a bit older (2003). but - if you are searching for a table with names compared to groups - it doesn´t exist.

[Chris]

is it realy english? it seems to be rather french ...

It sure is, albeit as you say, French-looking. Check this site out - very interesting: http://www.publicprofiler.org/worldnames/Main.aspx

[OldWil]

Chris,

My earliest know ancestor was born in Dorset, UK about 1595. My surname is Danish (Husted) but my Y-DNA is I2a1b. I suspect that my earlier ancestors reached the British Isles soon after the end of the last glacial maximum and obtained the Husted surname from a Danish master or employer, maybe in the 14th-15th centuries. I guess this surname could be considered English.

Wil Husted

[elly]

My surname is Elliot and I'm R-L2*; does anyone have a hunch of how an Elliot came to be this?

Kyle Elliot

[Aristander]

My surname is Elliot and I'm R-L2*; does anyone have a hunch of how an Elliot came to be this?

Kyle Elliot

Isn't that group found mainly in southern Asia? Maybe you had an East Indian ancestor several centuries ago? The British have been in contact with India for nearly 400 years. A lot of gene transfer can happen in that time. I don't know what groups the Roma are but they are of Indian/Asian origins. I remember reading a couple of years back about Roma DNA being found in an Anglo-Saxon skeleton somewhere in Britain.

[elly]

R-L2* is U152+, L2+.