Noad Family History
Noad Name Meaning
for someone who lived near the site of a beacon (a signal fire) or at a place so named from a misdivision of Middle English atten ode ‘at the beacon’ (Old English ād). The sites of beacons known by this term are recorded in minor place-names in Wilts Herts and IoW.
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016