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  2. English surnames of Norman origin - Wikipedia

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    Beginning in the late 1500s and peaking in the wake of the Edict of Fontainebleau (1685), French Protestant refugees from France, the Huguenots, brought surnames like Dubarry (Aquitaine), Blanchard (whole France), Duhamel (Normandy, Picardy) and Dupuy (Aquitaine) into the English namespace, when the historical record shows these names had not been present prior to the fifteenth century.

  3. Category:Surnames of Norman origin - Wikipedia

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  4. Goddard (surname) - Wikipedia

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    Goddard is a surname of Norman origin, found in England and France. [1] It is derived from the personal name Golhard. [1] Recorded variants include Godard and Godart in England; Goudard and Godar in France; Gotthard, Godehard and Goddert in Germany; and Goedhard and Goedhart in Holland.

  5. Baskerville (surname) - Wikipedia

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    Baskerville is an English surname of Anglo-Norman origin. [1] It is believed to have been used by Norman invaders from Bacqueville (Bacqueville-en-Caux, Sancte Mariae de Baschevilla 1133; Baschevillam, Baskervilla 1155, Baccheville 1176, Bascervilla 1179 [2]) in Normandy, many of whom settled along the English-Welsh border.

  6. Rowe (surname) - Wikipedia

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    Rowe is a surname; it has also been used as the name for several places. It is of Norman origin, Rous or Le Roux', from the French rouge "red." It has strong links to northern France and Cornwall, where it remains a common surname to this day. [1]

  7. Marmion (surname) - Wikipedia

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    The noble Marmion family in Britain were Normans, who received English land after the Norman Conquest.Their earliest documented ancestor is William Marmion, who exchanged 12 acres of land with Ralf Taisson before Oct 1049 and witnessed a charter of William, Duke of Normandy in 1060. [1]

  8. List of place names of French origin in the United States

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    Gastineau Channel named after John Gastineau, an English Civil Engineer and Surveyor with a French surname. [18]: 361–362 Compare with Gatineau, Quebec. Juneau named after Joseph Juneau, French-Canadian prospector and gold miner [18]: 480 La Chaussée Spit at the entrance of Lituya Bay.

  9. Category:Norman-language surnames - Wikipedia

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