* Shutts:
Shutts is Americanized version of German name, Schütz.
1. Habitational name from Schütz, a place near Trier.
2. Occupational name for an archer, Middle High German schütze (from Middle High German schützen ‘to guard or protect’), or alternatively an occupational name for a watchman, from the same word in its original sense, ‘guard’, i.e. the warden of a piece of common land or a night watchman in a town.
* Barnaby:
Habitational name from Barnaby in North Yorkshire, named with the Old English personal name Beornwald (composed of the elements beorn ‘young warrior’ + wald ‘rule’) + Old Norse býr ‘settlement’.
*Barrette:
1. It may be from a medieval personal name, but if so the form is unclear.
2. Alternatively, it may be a nickname for a quarrelsome or deceitful person, from Middle English bar(r)et(t)e, bar(r)at ‘trouble’, ‘strife’, ‘deception’, ‘cheating’ (Old French barat ‘commerce’, ‘dealings’, a derivative of barater ‘to haggle’). It is possible that the original sense of barat survived unrecorded into Middle English as a word for a market trader; the Italian cognate Baratta has this sense. It could also be a nickname or metonymic occupational name from Old French barette ‘cap’, ‘bonnet’.
*Blair:
Scottish and northern Irish: habitational name from any of the numerous places in Scotland called Blair, named with Scottish Gaelic blàr (genitive blàir) ‘plain’, ‘field’, especially a battlefield (Irish blár).
*Coates:
1. English: status name for a cottager or a topographic name for someone who lived in a relatively humble dwelling (from Middle English cotes, plural (or genitive) of cote, cott), or a habitational name from any of the numerous places named with this word, especially Coates in Cambridgeshire and Cotes in Leicestershire.
2. Scottish: variant of Coutts.
Coutts: Scottish: habitational name from Cults in Aberdeenshire, named with Gaelic cuilt ‘nook’, with the later addition of the English plural -s.
*Haseltine:
Haseltine is a variant of the English name, Haselden.
Haselden: habitational name from any of various places named from Old English hæsel, ‘hazelnut tree’ (or the Old Norse cognate, hesli) + denu, ‘valley’.
* King:
King is the direct translation of the French name, Roi.
Roi: from Old French rey, roy ‘king’ (from Latin rex, genitive regis), a nickname for someone who lived in a regal fashion or who had earned the title in some contest of skill or by presiding over festivities.
* Klapper:
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from an agent derivative of Middle High German klappern ‘chatter’, ‘rattle’, hence a nickname for a talkative person or a gossip or a metonymic occupational name for a night watchman, a reference to the clapper used for making announcements.
* Lapoint:
Lapoint is the respelling of French name, Lapointe.
Lapointe: apparently a nickname for a soldier, from Old French pointe ‘point (of a lance)’. In Canada this is recorded as a secondary surname (from 1693 in Montréal), which has also been used independently since 1710.
**Lewis:
English derivative of Germanic given name, Lewis, meaning "renowned, famous battle."
*Nash:
English: topographic name for someone who lived by an ash tree, a variant of Ash by misdivision of Middle English atten ash, ‘at the ash’, or a habitational name from any of the many places in England and Wales named Nash, from this phrase, as for example Nash in Buckinghamshire, Herefordshire, or Shropshire. The name was established from an early date in Wales and Ireland.
* Nokes:
Nokes is a variant of the English name, Noakes.
Noakes: English (southeastern and central): topographic name for someone who lived by some oak trees, from misdivision of Middle English atten okes ‘at the oaks’
* Perreault:
Perreault is North American version of French name, Perrot.
Perrot: derivative of the Old French personal name Perre, variant of Pierre, French form of Peter.
* Plummer:
1. Occupational name for a worker in lead, especially a maker of lead pipes and conduits, from Anglo-Norman French plom(m)er, plum(m)er ‘plumber’, from plom(b), plum(b) ‘lead’ (Latin plumbum).
2. Occasionally, a habitational name from a minor place name, such as Plummers in Kimpton, Hertfordshire, which was named with Old English plum ‘plum(tree)’ + mere ‘pool’. The name is also established in Ireland, taken there from England in the 17th century.
**Robinson:
1. English: Son of Robbin or Robin.
2. Jewish: Derived from the Polish word "rabin," meaning rabbi.
* Schmidt:
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name from Middle High German smit, German Schmied ‘blacksmith’. The German surname is found in many other parts of Europe, from Slovenia to Sweden.
*Taken from: Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press.
** Taken from http://genealogy.about.com/library/surnames/
