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Sikeliot
04-28-2013, 06:41 PM
I am curious about where these surnames come from:

Breen
Gilligan
Lozada
Kerber
Mathias
Snowden

Peyrol
04-28-2013, 06:47 PM
I am curious about where these surnames come from:

Breen
Gilligan
Lozada
Kerber
Mathias
Snowden


1) Belfast, Northern Ireland
2) Northeastern EIRE
3) Criollo argentinian surname
4) Landek, Northern Tyrol, Austria
5) Swansea, Wales
6) Yorkshire, England

Comte Arnau
04-28-2013, 07:10 PM
Lozada definitely looks like one of those typical misspellings of z for s, like writing Cortés as Cortez.

Roy
04-28-2013, 09:50 PM
Kerber for sure sounds German - derived.

HispaniaSagrada
05-07-2013, 11:24 PM
Mathias I think is Hebrew or Greek and is like Matthew.