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Tyack or Tyacke is a Cornish surname. It is an ancient surname and the Tyacks were landowners at an early period. It is thought to be derived from a Celtic word for ploughman. William Tyack was escheator of the Leeward Islands in the reign of James II. The Tyackes of St Breock bore the arms: Arg. a fesse (or a chevron) between three bears' heads couped Sa.

Other bearers of the name:

Footnotes

  1. Tyacke; forebears.co.uk; citing Patronymica Britannica, written: 1838-1860 by Mark Antony Lower
  2. "Lists of Emigrants to America 1600-1700: The Original Lists of Persons of Quality 1600-1700. Our Early Emigrant Ancestors", by John Camden Hotten.
  3. Tyacke; forebears.co.uk; citing Homes of Family Names in Great Britain (1890) by Henry Brougham Guppy
  4. Pascoe, W. H. (1979) A Cornish Armory. Padstow: Lodenek Press; p. 117
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