Family name origins & meanings
- English (mainly north central England) : habitational name from a place in Northumberland, so called from the genitive case of the Old English personal name Heðīn (from a short form of the rare compound names formed with hǣð ‘heath’ as the first element) + Old English halh ‘nook’, ‘recess’.
- English (mainly north central England) : habitational name from a place in the parish of Prestbury, Cheshire, and from a lost place in southeastern Lancashire, both named from Middle English hen ‘hen’ + shaw ‘wood’. The name de Henneshagh occurs at Rochdale as early as 1325.