Släkthistoria för Townshead
Townshead Vad efternamn betyder
pronunciation of Townsend or Townend with assimilation of the second /n/ and clerical reinterpretation of -ed as a vulgar pronunciation of -head. This is confirmed by the variant surname forms cited below located in the same parishes. No evidence has been found to show that the origin is a synonymous Middle English *atte tounehed ‘at the head of the town or village’ though this is theoretically possible.
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
