Wolfinbarger meaning | Last name Wolfinbarger origin

The derivation of Wulf. Descendant of Vulf, a pet form of names beginning with Wolf, as Wolfbrand, Wolfgang and Wolfgard; dweller at the sign of the wolf; one with the qualities of a wolf.

Family name is a derivation of Wolf. Dweller at the sign of the wolf; one with the characteristics of a wolf; descendant of Vulf, a pet form of names beginning with Wolf, as Wolfbrand, Wolfgang and Wolfgard.

Wolfinbarger is a derivation of the Woolf. Equivalent of Wolf that means wolf or dweller at the sign of the wolf.

The is an adaptation of Wolf. The wolf.

Is a derivation of the Wolf. Throughout the middle ages the wolf was regarded with a sort of mysterious awe, from his association with the unseen world—perhaps in the first instance in consequence of his constant attendance on Woden. The semi mythology of those times invested this cruel beast with many remarkable attributes, some of which are still remembered in our nursery literature. Hence many of the old pagan personal names, which descended to Christian times, allude to him; and his name is largely compounded with our local nomenclature, a source in later times of family names. Grimm has collected a large number of Old German proper names compounded with wolf in his 'Deutsche Grammatik,' and it would be equally easy to do the same for the English, and other languages. In France a St. Lou, Lupus, succeeded a St. Ursus in the see of Troyes the V century, and there were several church dignitaries under Charlemagne who were called Lupus. The kinglet Hugh Lupus, Earl of Chester, is well-known as the kinsman and chief subject of the Conqueror. Lupellus, the diminutive, became softened into Lovell and Lovett, still to be found as English surnames; and there are some curious compounds of the word. Pel-de-leu, for instance-wolf's skin-is an ancient family name mentioned by Ducange, and both Vis-de-Lew and Viso Lupi- wolf's face, occur in Domesday—the former as a tenant-in-chief in Berkshire. In the Roll of Arms of temp. Edward II, Sir William Videlou bears three wolves' heads. Fosbroke mentions a man whose sur name represents him as worse than a wolf" —Archembaldus Pejor-Lupo. See Wolfhunt in this Dict - Anglo-Saxon wolf and hunta, wolf-hunter. A family of this name held lands in Derbyshire, by the service of keeping the Forest of the Peak clear of wolves. Nothing can be more erroneous than the popular opinion that King Edgar succeeded, by the peculiar impost of wolves' heads, which he levied upon his Welsh tributaries, in exterminating this villanous quadruped. That it existed at the time of the Norman Conquest, and even so late as the reign of Edward I, is evident from the following authorities. The Carmen de Bello Hastingensi states that William the Conqueror left the dead bodies of the English upon the battle-field, to be devoured "by worms, and nolres, and birds, and dogs"—(vermibus, atque lupis, avibus, canibusque voranda.) In the year 1851 many skulls of wolves were taken out of a disused medieval well at Pevensey Castle. In the time of Edward I. John Engayne held lands in Huntingdonshire by the tenure of maintaining dogs for the King, for the purpose of hunting the wolf, fox, cat, badger, wild-boar, and hare, in several specified counties. In the Patent Rolls of 9th of the same monarch, John Gifford of Brymmesfield is empowered to destroy the wolves in all the king's forests throughout the realm; while in the same year Peter de Corbet has a similar permission to catch wolves in the royal forests in several counties

as a surname derived from a useful employment. Woolf and Woolfe are among naturalized German Jews in this country.

The surname is derivation of Woolf. See Wolf - Throughout the middle ages the wolf was regarded with a sort of mysterious awe, from his association with the unseen world—perhaps in the first instance in consequence of his constant attendance on Woden. The semi mythology of those times invested this cruel beast with many remarkable attributes, some of which are still remembered in our nursery literature. Hence many of the old pagan personal names, which descended to Christian times, allude to him; and his name is largely compounded with our local nomenclature, a source in later times of family names. Grimm has collected a large number of Old German proper names compounded with wolf in his 'Deutsche Grammatik,' and it would be equally easy to do the same for the English, and other languages. In France a St. Lou, Lupus, succeeded a St. Ursus in the see of Troyes the V century, and there were several church dignitaries under Charlemagne who were called Lupus. The kinglet Hugh Lupus, Earl of Chester, is well-known as the kinsman and chief subject of the Conqueror. Lupellus, the diminutive, became softened into Lovell and Lovett, still to be found as English surnames; and there are some curious compounds of the word. Pel-de-leu, for instance-wolf's skin-is an ancient family name mentioned by Ducange, and both Vis-de-Lew and Viso Lupi- wolf's face, occur in Domesday—the former as a tenant-in-chief in Berkshire. In the Roll of Arms of temp. Edward II, Sir William Videlou bears three wolves' heads. Fosbroke mentions a man whose sur name represents him as worse than a wolf" —Archembaldus Pejor-Lupo. See Wolfhunt in this Dict - Anglo-Saxon wolf and hunta, wolf-hunter. A family of this name held lands in Derbyshire, by the service of keeping the Forest of the Peak clear of wolves. Nothing can be more erroneous than the popular opinion that King Edgar succeeded, by the peculiar impost of wolves' heads, which he levied upon his Welsh tributaries, in exterminating this villanous quadruped. That it existed at the time of the Norman Conquest, and even so late as the reign of Edward I, is evident from the following authorities. The Carmen de Bello Hastingensi states that William the Conqueror left the dead bodies of the English upon the battle-field, to be devoured "by worms, and nolres, and birds, and dogs"—(vermibus, atque lupis, avibus, canibusque voranda.) In the year 1851 many skulls of wolves were taken out of a disused medieval well at Pevensey Castle. In the time of Edward I. John Engayne held lands in Huntingdonshire by the tenure of maintaining dogs for the King, for the purpose of hunting the wolf, fox, cat, badger, wild-boar, and hare, in several specified counties. In the Patent Rolls of 9th of the same monarch, John Gifford of Brymmesfield is empowered to destroy the wolves in all the king's forests throughout the realm; while in the same year Peter de Corbet has a similar permission to catch wolves in the royal forests in several counties

as a surname derived from a useful employment. Woolf and Woolfe are among naturalized German Jews in this country.