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Possible derivations
Posted by: John M. Blankenship	Date: March 25, 1998 at 00:21:16
In Reply to: Eason, Easum, Isham, d'Easum, Isom, Ison, etc. by John M. Blankenship	of 1453

The first element in the name may derive from the river Ise, which is found in Northamptonshire. The second element is common in English place-names: it denotes a small town or village. Indeed, Isham stands along the Ise, where it has for at least nine hundred years.
A second theory would derive the first element from some cognate to the French Yves or the Italian Ivo. The second element may make it patronymic, denoting the son of Yves.

Eilert Ekwall's Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place Names is a good place to start; even better is one of the publications of the English Place-name Society, put out by Cambridge University Press beginning about 1930.

Followups:

Re: Possible derivations NANCI DIX CROCKETT 7/07/00

Re: Possible derivations John M. Blankenship 7/07/00

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