Tyack


Tyack or Tyacke is a Cornish surname. It is an ancient surname and the Tyacks were landowners at an early period. It is thought to be derived from a Celtic word for ploughman. William Tyack was escheator of the Leeward Islands in the reign of James II.. The Tyackes of St Breock bore the arms: Arg. a fesse between three bears' heads couped Sa.
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