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Origin: the old English word bearu, beara, meant "grove, wood" and there are nearly forty places in SW England named from that root in variations such as Beare, Beere , etc. The man who hailed from that location and moved to another town was often described by his former place of residence. The addition of the -S most often designates a patronymic form. If a man named John moved to a town, where there were several men named John already, he might be described as "John, of Beare." His son would be described as Beare's, or Beare's son. Most of surnames of this style are related to the Old English bearu/beara = grove. Spellings were not standardized until after the American Civil War, a fact we are sometimes surprised by, since spellings are so important to us in this age of computers. There is actually an Anglo-Saxon vocabulary word" bearce which means "barking."Source: Broken Arrow Publishing |
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