Where did your name come from?
I can never use the question of what is my mother’s maiden name as a security question because it is also my first name. The name itself is pretty popular…but the spelling isn’t – Sherrill.
I have learned that Sherrill is English. I was told it was a lake somewhere. And like so many places in this “new world” the names were brought across the pond with the settlers and used in their new home.
I have discovered that there are several communities around the United States with the name Sherrill.
My last name is not the original family name. Like so many immigrants who came to America whose names were changed simply because the person taking the information didn’t understand or couldn’t spell it correctly and the name except ours happened in England a few hundred years ago.
Being of Nordic decent, my ancestors “went a viking” – exploring – and at some point Foljambe got Anglicized and became Fulghum. There is also a part of the clan who spells their name with an am.
After sailing the seas around northern Europe long before Christopher Columbus was even a gleam in his mother’s eyes, my ancestors helped to settle the “new world” from Jamestown to Captain Anthony bring a boat filled with settlers to Virginia in 1640.