Viking origins - the Organ family of Gloucestershire and Australia
The Great Heathen Army, 865AD. Contents Origins Vikings References -------------- 1. Origins Gloucestershire, England. Like most surnames, origins are often intriguing, and Organ is one such example. Where did it come from? What race? Is the word English or another language? Does it refer to, for example, the internal structure of the body, or perhaps musical instruments? How far back does it go? All such questions have intrigued the septuagenarian writer since his youth. An attempt to answer them will be made within the present article. Oral tradition exists that the Organ name is of Viking (Danish) origin, deriving from a family who settled in the Gloucestershire region of Anglo Saxon England around the time of Danish rule between 870-878, and/or the second phase between 1016-1035 (Organ 1984). Gloucestershire is located on the western coast of England, cut in part by the Severn River. Known Organ family settlement since the 1200s has been on land loca...