Tyack
Tyack or Tyacke is a Cornish surname. It is an ancient surname and the Tyacks were landowners at an early period. It is thought to be derived from a Celtic word for ploughman.[1] William Tyack was escheator of the Leeward Islands in the reign of James II.[2][3] The Tyackes of St Breock bore the arms: Arg. a fesse (or a chevron) between three bears' heads couped Sa.[4]
Other bearers of the name:
- Dave Tyack, German musician
- David Tyack, American academic, Professor of Education
- Major General David Tyacke, British Army officer
- Jim Tyack, baseball player
- Les Tyack, Australian politician
- Ryan Tyack, Australian archer
- Sarah Tyacke, British historian of cartography
Footnotes
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- ↑ Tyacke; forebears.co.uk; citing Patronymica Britannica, written: 1838-1860 by Mark Antony Lower
- ↑ "Lists of Emigrants to America 1600-1700: The Original Lists of Persons of Quality 1600-1700. Our Early Emigrant Ancestors", by John Camden Hotten.
- ↑ Tyacke; forebears.co.uk; citing Homes of Family Names in Great Britain (1890) by Henry Brougham Guppy
- ↑ Pascoe, W. H. (1979) A Cornish Armory. Padstow: Lodenek Press; p. 117
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