Meau meaning | Last name Meau origin

Meau is variation of Mow. Of that Ilk, now called Moll, in Roxburghshire.

Family name is the form of Moul. See Mould - Montalt1. Like Maude, a corruption of Montalt. See - See Maude - A remarkable contraction of De Monte Alto, De Montalt, or "of the high mountain." The first of the family in England was Eustachius de Monte Alto, who came hither at the Conquest among the followers of Hugh Lupus, Earl of Chester. From him sprang the Barons Montalt, whose elder line became extinct in the XIV century Many younger branches survive under the name of Maude, and one of them, Viscount Hawarden, still enjoys the second title of Baron Montalt. According to Burke's Commoners, the name was originally derived from a place in Italy

It is asserted by some genealogists that Robert, one of the barons of Hugh Lupus, Earl of Chester, assumed the surname from his chief place of residence, an elevated spot in Flintshire, now called Mold.

Meau is a variant of the Molley. See Mulloy - An ancient race, in whom vests hereditarily the honour of Standard-bearer to the King in Ireland-an honour confirmed so lately as the year 1634. The present head of the family is said to be descended through more than forty generations from O'Niall of the Nine Hostages, King of Ireland in the fourth century. B.L.G.

Meau is the variation of the Moll. One who paid a money rent to the lord of the manor in return for the land he held and worked for the lord only on special occasions; descendant of Moll that means the foolish one, or of Mall, a pet form of Mary meaning "bitterness".

Lastname Meau is variant form of the Mole. A river of surrey tributary to the Thames, and so called beacuse in parts of its course it is subterraneous.
"And sullen Mole that runneth underneath."