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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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    This page was last edited on 24 October 2024, at 12:57 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

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

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    The suffix "-ville," from the French word for "city" is common for town and city names throughout the United States. Many originally French place names, possibly hundreds, in the Midwest and Upper West were replaced with directly translated English names once American settlers became locally dominant (e.g. "La Petite Roche" became Little Rock ...

  5. 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]

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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]

  9. Category:Surnames of English origin - Wikipedia

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    Surnames of English origin. This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Surnames of British Isles origin . It includes Surnames of British Isles origin that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.