Dorset Names (L-Q)

In 1890, Henry Brougham Guppy. M.B. (Edin.), published his ‘Homes of Family Names in Great Britain’. This is part of his entry for the county of Dorset

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Charles Herbert Mayo (1845-1929)

Charles Herbert Mayo was born in 1845 at Folke,  a village in north west Dorset, England, situated in the Blackmore Vale 3.5 miles south-east of Sherborne. He was the third of three children of William Mayo, the rector of Folke, and his wife Charlotte Dyer.

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