Can anyone tell me anything about the herrick family ancestory?
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/...
has 75,403 entries surname. but,
1) of them inaccurate
2) ads @ top ask name, take pay site. scroll way down.
3) doesn't have living or living people.
4) there more 1 herrick family.
dictionary of american family names, oxford university press, says:
herrick name meaning
1) english: old norse personal name eiríkr, composed of elements eir ‘mercy’, ‘peace’ + rík ‘power’. addition in english of inorganic h- names beginning vowel relatively common phenomenon. possible name may have swallowed less common germanic personal name first element heri, hari ‘army’.
2) dutch: germanic personal name composed of elements heri, hari ‘army’ + ric ‘power’, or assimilated form of henrick, dutch form of henry.
3) irish: anglicized form of gaelic Ó heirc ‘descendant of erc’, personal name meaning ‘speckled’, ‘dark red’, or ‘salmon’. there saint of name. surname born families in munster , ulster, has been changed harkin.
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