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Origin of Egg Total Records: 9  Origin of Egg, Meaning of Egg Origin: Germany Surnames: Goethe, Goette, Goettee, Gothe, G?the, Otto, Lauer, Eggert, Thursam, Thuersam, Tiersam Submitted by: Allison Goettee Cate Origin of Egg, Meaning of Egg Origin: The surname Legge can be traced back to ancient Rome. The gens Atia was a powerful scribal family in Rome. From it descended the Traversari family taking its name from a castle biult in 476 A.D. by Teodoro, the prefect of Ravenna who was the founder of the family. Around the 1100's the Traversari family became powerful lawyers,senators and judges. Because of this,their name was changed to Traversari dalla Legge meaning Traversari of the Law due to their involvement in law. There name was eventullaly shortened to da Legge in Ravenna and other parts of Italy and England, and da Lezze in Venice. All were eventually shortened to Legge. Surnames: Legg, Legge Submitted by: Richard Legge Origin of Egg, Meaning of Egg Origin: From the areas of Arundel, Chichester and Portsmouth in the southeast of England Surnames: leggett Submitted by: John Fogden Origin of Egg, Meaning of Egg Origin: Information sought on Clegg family headed by Thomas Clegg b 1827 in Rochdale, Lancs, Wife Martha Surnames: Clegg Submitted by: Walter_Jakeman Origin of Egg, Meaning of Egg Origin: Family property of the female descendents of the Counts of Zutphen, Gelre and Kleef. Husbands took the name of the property when they married the owner after 1500. Surnames: Eggink, Stukkers, Nannes, Ettikhoven,De Blaauw Submitted by: Daniel Eggink Origin of Egg, Meaning of Egg Origin: Thought to be derived from Tegeingl ,an ancient North Wales kingdom . Surnames: Teggin,Teggen Submitted by: r.teggin Origin of Egg, Meaning of Egg Origin: Gregg, meaning Children of the Mist. One of many derivatives taken from the name MacGregor of Scotland. Others in this line are Gregg, Greg, Grigg, Grig, Greer, Grier, Gragg, and so on. Surnames: Gregg Submitted by: ZMG Origin of Egg, Meaning of Egg Origin: Derived from Sagar (from a.s. saga, meaning saw). Occuational; a sawyer. Surnames: Sagar; Sager; Seger; Saggar; Sagger; Segger; Sigger; Sicker; Secker; Sigher Submitted by: Michael Saggers Origin of Egg, Meaning of Egg Origin: Reggin is a derivative of the Irish 'O'Regan' meaning 'little king.' Surnames: Reggin Submitted by: Reg Volk 2/17/2012 10:17 AM Page 1 of 1

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