We decided to make a page for Greenhalgh's. Our name is not a common name but the more we looked around the more Greenhalgh's we found. Anyways, we will not add anyone that does not have the last name Greenhalgh.
Greenhalgh is a name whose history on English soil dates back to the wave of migration that followed the Norman Conquest of England of 1066. The Greenhalgh family lived in Greenhalg in Kirkham and Greenhalg Castle in Garstang. The surname Greenhalgh originally derived from greene as n the village greene which was the center or main square of each region. Many inhabitants in various counties adopted this surname as part of their family's nomenclature. The surname Greenhalgh is a topographic surname, which was given to a person who resided near a physical feature such as a hill, stream, church, or type of tree. Habitation names form the other broad category of surnames that were derived from place-names. They were derived from pre-existing names for towns, villages, parishes, or farmsteads. Other local names are derived from the names of houses, manors, estates, regions, and entire counties. As a general rule, the greater the distance between an individual and their homeland, the larger the territory they were named after. For example, a person who only moved to another parish would be known by the name of their original village, while people who migrated to a different country were often known by the name of a region or country from which they came.
