Last name: Alberts This is a surname of Anglo-Saxon pre 8th
century origins. Recorded in the spellings of Albert, Aubert,
the patronymic Albertson and the short form Alberts, the name
was popular as a baptismal name in England before the Norman
Invasion of 1066. The Normans also used the name, and therefore
it enjoyed increased support until the surname period, when
mysteriously its popularity waned. The surname was recorded from
the early 13th century, see below, but recordings were sparse.
The name derives from the Old German compound 'Aedelbeort' which
translates literally as 'noble-bright', but probably had a more
prosaic meaning one thousand years ago. Examples of the early
recordings include 'Albertus' in the 1086 Domesday Book for
Bedfordshire, whilst Phillipus filius Alberti is recorded in the
1211 'Curia regis' rolls for Dorset, and Isabella Aubert appears
in the Subsidy Rolls of Suffolk in the year 1327. The latter was
clearly a hereditary surname, although those before it were not
so. Later example