When George Northeast was born in April 1802, in Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Thomas Northeast, was 37 and his mother, Mary Russell, was 34. He died in January 1803, in his hometown, at the age of 0.
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English: locative name from Northease Farm in Rodmell (Sussex), which is recorded as Northesia in 1087–1100 and Northhese in 1347. The place-name means ‘northern brushwood land’, from Old English norð ‘north, northern’ + * hǣse (Kentish * hēse) ‘land overgrown with brushwood’, a secondary form of hǣs (Kentish hēs) ‘brushwood’.
Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland © University of the West of England 2016
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