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Conway is a Welsh, Irish & Scottish surname. It can be an anglicised spelling of Conwy, Mac Connmhaigh, Ó Connmhacháin, or the Scottish Coneway. In Ireland, derivations of Conway such as McConway as sometimes observed. It translates as follows:
Notable people with the name include: Conway Baker (1911–1997), American National Football League player; Conway Barbour (1818–1876), American former slave and Arkansas state legislator; Conway Berners-Lee (1921–2019), British mathematician and computer scientist; Conway Elder (1880–1957), Justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri
His bequest stipulated that Popham Seymour should adopt the arms and additional surname of Conway, and thus he became known as Popham Seymour-Conway. The latter's nephew and eventual heir was Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford, (1718–1794), whose seat became Ragley Hall, where his descendant the 9th Marquess is still seated in 2015.
Conway is a city in and the county seat of Horry County, South Carolina, United States. [8] The population was 24,849 at the 2020 census , [ 9 ] up from 17,103 in the 2010 census , [ 10 ] making it the 18th-most populous city in the state.
Seymour-Conway is the surname of: Alice Seymour-Conway, Viscountess Beauchamp (1749–1772) Francis Seymour-Conway (disambiguation), multiple people; Lord George Seymour-Conway (1763–1848), British politician; Henry Seymour Conway (1721–1795), British general and statesman, son of Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Baron Conway
Recorded as both Tucker and Tooker, the derivation of the English occupational surname comes from the Old English, pre-7th century verb tucian, meaning "to torment".It would have been for a fuller, also known as a "walker", one who softened freshly woven cloth by beating and tramping on it in water.
Seymour is an English toponymic surname. Some Seymours are of French-Canadian origin who changed their name from Simard to Seymour once they have moved to the USA. Notable individuals with this surname include: A. J. Seymour (1914–1989), Guyanese poet, essayist, memoirist and editor; Alan Seymour (1927–2015), Australian playwright and writer
Popham was killed in a duel with Colonel Kirk in 1669, and his estates devolved on his next brother, Francis, who likewise assumed the name of Conway, and having been created Baron Conway in 1703 was the father of Francis Seymour Conway (1719–1794), created Marquess of Hertford in 1793, and of field-marshal Henry Seymour Conway.