Ralph de Gaste

• Preferred Name: Ralph de Gaste^{[1] [2]}
  
• Gender: M
  
• Death: 1211 in Swallowcliffe, Wiltshire, England at LATI: N1.0404 LONG: E2.0427 with note: Removed United Kingdom.
  
• FSID: G48X-Y5Z
  
• Birth: 1151 in Swallowcliffe, Wiltshire, England at LATI: N1.0404 LONG: E2.0427 with note: Removed United Kingdom.
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  West is a locality name meaning 'man from the west', from a person who migrated from the west. This name is of Anglo-Saxon descent spreading to the Celtic countries of Ireland, Scotland and Wales in early times and is found in many mediaeval manuscripts throughout these countries.
  
  The ancestors of the West surname lived among the ancient Anglo-Saxon culture. The name comes from when they lived in Devon. The name West is derived from the fact that the original bearer of the name came from the west.
  
  A.D. 1189-1314 ] INTERMIXTURE OF CLASSES 227
  simple knight, and angry as the king was, he did not attempt to undo the marriage. A merchant of Hull became an eminent minister of Edward III and founded a powerful family . Judges and abbots, bishops andarchbishops came from the country agricultural families.
  But such mixture and equality of classes was peculiar to England ; on the continent, outside Italy, it was impossible.
  
  During this time people began to use surnames which descended from father to son . Earlier, surnames had been nicknames (le brun ,
  white, with -the-nose); or names of occupations, as miller, spicer, lorimer, hayward ; but even before the thirteenth century, these became hereditary , and many French names became Englished, e.g., Tibetôt, Blundeville, and De Gaste turned into Tiptoft, Blundell and West. The largest number of surnames, however, came from places, which implies that the first persons so named came from villages of those names, and almost certainly were of English race and not of noble descent.

1. John Everard de Gaste, b. 1176 in Swallowcliffe, Wiltshire, England     d. in Swallowcliffe, Wiltshire, England

1. Title: WikiTree - Ralph De Gaste (1151)
   Publication: Name: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/De_Gaste-3;
   
2. Title: Geneanet - Ralph De Gaste
   Publication: Name: https://gw.geneanet.org/natoab?lang=en&iz=0&p=ralph&n=degaste;