Ferriday meaning | Last name Ferriday origin

Is a variant form of Friday. From the day of the week; from some event which occurred to the original bearer on that day. So Munday, Christmas, Pentecost. This name is found in the Hundred Rolls in its modern orthography.

The is the form of the Faraday. This, like other compounds of day, is not very easily explained. Derived from Anglo-Saxon fara, a traveller, with dag as a suffix.

Ferriday is the variant of the Freitag. Descendant of Freitag, the name sometimes given to one born on Friday.

Variation of Fereday. See Faraday - This, like other compounds of day, is not very easily explained. Derived from Anglo-Saxon fara, a traveller, with dag as a suffix.

The form of Freeth. See Frith - See under Fell - A component syllable in many local surnames, (see Fellbelow), such as Felbridge, Fellgate, Feltham, Felton, Grenfell, &c.

"By frith and by fell," a common medievalism; equivalent to the classical "per sylram, per campum." "Also there is difference between the fryth and the fel; the fels are understood the moun tains, vallyes, and pastures, with corn and such like; [open ground] the frythes be token the springs and coppyses" [wood lands.]-Noble Art of Venerie, quoted by Halliw.