Orchids with their delicate blossoms are simple elegance. Receiving an orchid bouquet or plant is a little like taking a trip to paradise.
This interesting surname is of Anglo Saxon origin, and is a locational name from places called Marsden in Lancashire, and the West Riding of Yorkshire, deriving from the Olde English pre 7th Century mearc meaning boundary, and denu, valley; hence, a valley forming a natural boundary.he first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Alan de Marchesden, which was dated 1246, witness in the Assize Court Rolls of Lancashire, during the reign of King Henry 111, known as The Frenchman, 1216 - 1272.
It is of Old English and Celtic origin, and the meaning of Brent is  hill, mount. Transferred use of the surname. The name may also have originally referred to criminals burned or branded as punishment.