Courthouse, 129 East Main St., Elkton, Maryland, March 2000. Photo by Diane F. Evartt. Appointed by Governor &/or elected by Voters to 15-year terms (4 Judges): Keith A. Baynes, County Administrative Judge (chosen by Chief Judge, Court of Appeals), 2027.
Buy PDF History Â». The surname Ballester was first found in Devon where they held a family seat as Lords of the Manor. The Saxon influence of English history diminished after the Battle of Hastings in 1066. The language of the courts was French for the next three centuries and the Norman ambience prevailed.
This is an extract from a posting that was compiled by Kevin Woolard.He has a theory on the origin of the name Woollard that you may be interested in -.f you look at a map of England showing the geographical distribution of the surname from old censuses (the sort of thing you can get from ancestry websites), you can see that Woolard was once very heavily concentrated in the Suffolk area, so a connection between the legend and the surname seems very likely.