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Names and origins:

8/21/2012

 
It is interesting to see the various names in genealogy;  we know Millard has several origins, the most common being a miller, others being a phonetic rendition of the French Maillard, and so on.   Kleinsteuber translates roughly to "small potatoes" but we don't know how it started.

Going through parish records from the 1500s and 1600s we see a given name of Marmaduke fairly often, and surnames often related to a job (Baker, Tanner, Hunter, etc.) and there is a family name showing up in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire in the mid 1600s of Ironmonger.

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