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I thought people might be interested in this post sript I've added to my website discussing the surnames origins:
"Post Script: Recent DNA results are informing our understanding of the names origins. The two largest family groups of Durham and Yorkshire now appear to be connected. This reduces my original estimates of 5 family groups down to 4 plus the Russian/Polish families mentioned above.
Both the Durham & Yorkshire family surname, therefore, is ‘locative’, deriving from the name off the Manor of Blakeston at Norton. MacGlashan believes this, in turn, is probably a combination of the Old English tun (farm) with a Scandinavian personal name. Therefore: ‘the farm of Bleik’."
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