Editing Lihou (section)

==Etymology==
In common with several nearby islands, such as [[Jethou]] and [[Brecqhou]], the name contains the [[Norman language|Norman]] suffix ''[[-hou]]'', which means a small hill or a mound.<ref name=bbc>{{cite web |title=History of Little Lihou |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/guernsey/content/articles/2004/12/01/lihou_history_feature.shtml |publisher=BBC |access-date=2 February 2014 |date=3 April 2008}}</ref> The name could have developed from the [[Breton language|Breton]] words ''lydd'' or ''ligg'', which means ''in or near water''.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Report and Transactions |volume=3 |page=318 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8gwQAAAAYAAJ&q=Lihou |author=Guernsey Society of Natural Science and Local Research |publisher=Guernsey Star and Gazette Company |year=1900}}</ref> Historically there have also been a number of alternative forms of the name, including ''Lihoumel'', which was attested as early as the twelfth century,<ref name=lewis>{{cite book |title=A Topographical Dictionary of England |publisher=S. Lewis and Co. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4-CzYeAyoIYC |author=Samuel Lewis |year=1833}}</ref>{{rp|310}}<ref name=williamberry/>{{rp|61}} and ''Lehowe'', which was mentioned in the sixteenth century.<ref name=ogier>{{cite book |title=Reformation and Society in Guernsey |publisher=Boydell Press |location=Rochester, NY |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kBDT2ZJPLOYC |author=Darryl Mark Ogier |year=1996 |isbn=9780851156033 |oclc=44958657}}</ref>

Lihou is also a common surname on Guernsey, with records suggesting that the name has been in use in the Channel Islands since at least the eighteenth century,<ref>{{cite web |title=Lihou&nbsp;– 1841 Channel Islands Census |url=http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=uki1841channel&so=2&pcat=CEN_CENTURY1800&MS_AdvCB=1&rank=1&new=1&MSAV=2&msT=1&gss=angs-c&gsfn_x=1&gsln=Lihou&gsln_x=1&msbdy_x=1&msbpn_x=XO&msbpn__ftp_x=1&msrpn_x=XO&msrpn__ftp_x=1&msydy_x=1&msypn_x=XO&msypn__ftp_x=1&gskw_x=1&_83004002_x=1&cpxt=0&uidh=000&cp=0 |publisher=Ancestry.co.uk |access-date=3 February 2014}}</ref><ref name=johnjacob/> including [[Royal Navy]] Captain John Lihou, who discovered and named the Australian [[Port Lihou Island]] and [[Lihou Reef]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Royal Naval Biography |volume=4 |page=487 |publisher=Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman |location=London |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ny5EAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA487 |author=John Marshall |year=1835 |oclc=85749387}}</ref> The name is also attested further afield, in a number of other countries, such as Australia, where for example Sergeant James Lihou, the son of a migrant from Guernsey, enlisted in the Australian forces in 1916 and was killed in action in 1918 in France.<ref>{{cite web |title=Lihou, James Victor (1895–1918) |url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/lihou-james-victor-7194 |work=Australian Dictionary of Biography |publisher=Australian National University |access-date=3 February 2014 |author=R. C. H. Courtney |year=1986}}</ref> There are also numerous instances of people with the surname having migrated from the Channel Islands to the United States.<ref>{{cite web |title=Matching passenger records |url=http://www.ellisisland.org/search/matchMore.asp?kind=exact&FNM=&LNM=lihou&x=53&y=3&dwpdone=1 |publisher=Statue of Liberty- Ellis Island Foundation, Inc. |access-date=4 February 2014}}</ref>