Släkthistoria för Essenhigh
Essenhigh Vad efternamn betyder
uncertain but reputedly Dutch or Flemish; if so apparently from a place-name formed of esse(n)- ‘ash-tree’ + hei ‘heath’. No such place has been identified. Perhaps alternatively an anglicization of Essenheim the winegrowing town in Rheinland-Pfalz Germany.
Källa: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain, 2021
