• Question: why is your surname eggbeer does it relat to where you came from

    Asked by black skull to Dominic on 7 Mar 2016.
    • Photo: Dominic Eggbeer

      Dominic Eggbeer answered on 7 Mar 2016:

      Ha, Ha! Something I get asked a lot! There’s an upper, lower and middle Eggbeer in Devon, just north of Dartmoor. That’s where the name comes from. It eligibly means Eiger’s forest if you dig back far enough.

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