Garrould meaning | Last name Garrould origin

Variation of Jarrold. A mispronunciation of Gerald.

Surname is variation of Garrood. See Garrett - It has been decided legally that Garrett and Gerald are but one name. Jacob, Law Dict., title Misnomer. But Garrett is a hamlet in Surrey, famous for its mock-mayor.

The variant of the Demon. This name is found in the 16th Report of the Registrar-General. It may, perhaps, have descended from medieval times, and from some one who played the devil in a miracle play. A more probable origin, however, is from the northern dee, day, and mon, man; day-man, a man who works by the day; or from the French Du Mont.

Family name Garrould is variant of Desmond. One who came from south Munster.

Family name Garrould is variant form of the Fitzgerald. The son of Gerald that means "firm, spear".

Garrould is variation of Gerald. Descendant of Gerard or Gerald meaning "spear, firm".

A variant of the Fitzgerald. Son of Gerald.

Garrould is variant form of the Fitzgerald. In the Description of Ireland in Holinshed's Chronicle is the following passage, showing by what mean tricks this name became so widely diffused as we now find it. "The corrupt orthographie that divers use in writing this name, doth incorporate it to houses thereto linked in no kindrede:—Some write Gerolde sundry Geralde, divers very corruptly Gerrot, others Gerarde; but the true ortho graphie is Giralde, as may appear by Giraldus Cambrensis and others. Divers estraunge houses have also been shuffled in among this familie, by sundry gentlemen christening of their children, and calling them Giraldes, though their surnames were of other houses ; and if after it happened that Girald had issue Thomas, John, Robert, or such lyke, then they would bear the surname of Girald as Thomas Fitz. Girald, and thus within two or three discentes they shoore themselves among the kindrede of the Giraldines. This is a general fault in Ireland and Wales, and a great confusion and extinguishment of houses."