Kettleborough Family History
Kettleborough Name Meaning
from Kettleburgh (Suffolk) which is recorded as Chetelbiria Chettlebiriga Kettleberga in 1086 Ketelberwe in 1235 and Kettlebergh in 1346. The place-name contains Old English beorg ‘hill mound’ with an uncertain first element either the Old Scandinavian personal name Ketill or Old English cetel (with the initial /tʃ/ of cetel scandinavianized to /k/) ‘kettle cooking-vessel’ used topographically to denote ‘deep valley hollow’. Initial /tʃ/ may have been preserved in the surname Chettleburgh .
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016