Släkthistoria för Ennals
Ennals Vad efternamn betyder
presumably a variant of the now extinct surname Ennall + post-medieval excrescent -s. Parish registers record entries such as Thomasyn Ennell 1604 in IGI (Tedburn Saint Mary Devon) Edmund Ennall 1616 in IGI (Saint Giles Cripplegate London) and Temperance Hennal 1705 in IGI (Belaugh Norfolk). Ennall is likely to be a reduced form of the well used Middle English personal name Ernold (see Arnold) or possibly the rarer Ernulf (Old English Earnwulf Old Scandinavian Arnulfr or of Continental Germanic Arnulf). Compare Walter Ernald 1338–9 in Norwich Freemen (Ranworth Norfolk) Johannes Ernald 1379 in Poll Tax (North Elmham Norfolk) Nicholaus Ernolf 1381 in Poll Tax (Witton Norfolk) and Edward Arnold 1561 in IGI (Saint Giles Cripplegate London). Assimilation of -r- to the following -n- and loss of final -d or -f would be quite normal in later Middle English and naturally result in spellings like Ennal and Ennel. Compare Annal.
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
