Släkthistoria för Trough
Trough Vad efternamn betyder
from Middle English tro(u)gh ‘trough tub’ (Old English trog) used in a topographical sense to denote a valley or hollow. The surname may be topographic for someone who lived in a valley or hollow or toponymic for someone from a place so named such as the Trough of Bowland in Bowland Forest (WR Yorks) Trough in Spotland (Lancs) or Trough House in Danby (NR Yorks). Compare Ricardus Troghman 1379 in Poll Tax (Lonsdale wapentake Lancs).
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
