Dictionary of Family Names

From A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames, by C. W. E. Bardsley, A. Bardsley, 1901.

ANKER. An occupational name meaning "the anker," an anchorite or hermit; see next article.

"Sometimes I am religious,
Now like an anker in an hous."
Chaucer, R. R. 6348.

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