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Lorna Gear
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Lorna | Report | 16 May 2003 18:13 |
I was told by my father that a YATT was an old English name for a Gate. Therefore, Byatt, Hyatt, Myatt, Wyatt would have been gate keepers, or keepers of the gate. I think this name went back to the middle ages or before. Lorna (Byatt) |