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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.
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Longe (/ ˈ l ɒ ŋ /; Old Norman: le Longe or le Long) is a surname of Anglo-Norman origin. The name Longe derives from the Anglo-Norman French ‘Lung’ or ‘Lang’ for tall or high. [1] The family descend from the noble family of de Préaux who were barons in Préaux, Roumois and Darnétal, Normandy.
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.
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]
Devereux is a Norman surname.Derived form of D'Evreux / Devreux, meaning d'Évreux ("from Évreux", a town in Normandy, France), the surname is found frequently in Ireland, Wales and England and to a lesser extent elsewhere in the English-speaking world.
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