The English surname Beach is a topographic name for someone who lived by a beech tree or beech wood, from the Middle English term beche meaning “beech tree.” The name may also be a topographic name for someone who lived by a stream from the Middle English term beche, Old English bece, a byform of bæce. The first recorded reference to the name is in 1236 when John de la Beche is recorded in the “Worcester County Pipe Rolls.” Later examples include Thomas Beach who married Grace Sarken at St Michaels church, Cornhill, London, on July 1st 1575, and Rebecca Beech, christened at St James Church, Clerkenwell, on March 31st 1623.
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