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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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Sir Thomas Lucy (24 April 1532 – 7 July 1600) was a magistrate and an evangelical living in Charlecote near Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire. He persecuted recusant Catholic families in the area, including William Shakespeare's maternal relatives. He assumed the surname Lucy, probably descended from the Norman de Luci family by his mother's ...
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.
The surname Hearn is thought to be derived from Hairun, a settlement near Rouen, Normandy. [1] The name can be traced back to the English settlement after the Norman Conquest. [1] The Clan Heron, a border-raiding clan along the Anglo-Scottish border, would settle at Chipchase Castle in the 17th century.
The family originated in Normandy and, as Earls, held land there and throughout England. William de Warenne was a cousin to William the Conqueror and was among his companions at the Battle of Hastings. When the senior male-line ended in the mid-12th century, the two branches descended from their heiress adopted the Warenne surname.
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