Names

I like my name.

Yvonne means a yew bow or yew tree. The yew tree is associated with death and is used as a guardian of churchyards (the tradition of it guarding a burial place is pre-Christian I think). On some social media sites, I used to go by Yewtree as that’s a translation of Yvonne.

Aburrow means “at the walled town” — I had hoped it was “at the burial mound” but that would be Berrow, derived from Beorh, whereas the —burrow part is from burh, whence we also get borough, and the wall ...