# Tyack

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**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.[1] William Tyack was [escheator](/source/Escheat) of the [Leeward Islands](/source/Leeward_Islands) in the reign of James II.[2][3] The Tyackes of St Breock bore the arms: *Arg. a fesse* (or a chevron) *between three bears' heads couped Sa*.[4]

Other bearers of the name:

- [Dave Tyack](/source/Dave_Tyack), German musician
- [David Tyack](/source/David_Tyack), American academic, Professor of Education
- Major General [David Tyacke](/source/David_Tyacke), British Army officer
- [Jim Tyack](/source/Jim_Tyack), baseball player
- [Les Tyack](/source/Les_Tyack), Australian politician
- [Ryan Tyack](/source/Ryan_Tyack), Australian archer
- [Sarah Tyacke](/source/Sarah_Tyacke), British historian of cartography

## Footnotes

1. [Tyacke](http://forebears.co.uk/surnames/tyacke#meaning); forebears.co.uk; citing *Patronymica Britannica*, written: 1838-1860 by Mark Antony Lower

1. "Lists of Emigrants to America 1600-1700: The Original Lists of Persons of Quality 1600-1700. Our Early Emigrant Ancestors", by John Camden Hotten.

1. [Tyacke](http://forebears.co.uk/surnames/tyacke#meaning); forebears.co.uk; citing *Homes of Family Names in Great Britain* (1890) by Henry Brougham Guppy

1. Pascoe, W. H. (1979) *A Cornish Armory*. Padstow: Lodenek Press; p. 117

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