Felgate Family History
Felgate Name Meaning
from Middle English feld(e) fild(e) ‘field open country’ (see Field ) + gate ‘gate’ denoting a gate opening on to fields or open country. The surname may be topographic for someone who lived by such a gate or toponymic for someone from a place so named. This name may have become confused with Falgate . perhaps occasionally from a lost place called Felgate in Elmley Lovett (Worcs) which is recorded as Felegate in 1275. The place-name derives from Middle English gate ‘gate’ with an uncertain first element.
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016