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Origin of Ure Total Records: 12  Origin of Ure, Meaning of Ure Origin: I beleive they were Cherokee Indians Surnames: Mcclure Submitted by: Andrea McClure Origin of Ure, Meaning of Ure Origin: French Huguenots, spelled Faure. Later used Fore, Foree, Ford, once in a while Four. Surnames: Faure, Ford, Fore, Foree, Four Submitted by: Ellen Byrne Origin of Ure, Meaning of Ure Origin: There are two common interpratations of the origins of Frazier. 1st that it is of Frissean and means 'strawberry bearer or planter' as noted by the 'fraise' or five petaled strawberry plant, the cinque-foil. 2nd is that Frazier is a derivation of 'de Friselle'. It is Norman French and means 'place of ash trees'. The de Friselle's came to Briton in 1066. Surnames: Fraisior, Fraser-Fraisior-Frasure-Fraysure, Fraser, Frasure, Fraysure, Frazier Submitted by: Randy Frazier Origin of Ure, Meaning of Ure Origin: La Tour d'Auvergne--Name of my French family, orginally from the village of Latour in Auvergne, dating from 10th century; it divided into several branches, including Counts of Auvergne, Dukes of Bouillon and Al'bert, and Viscounts of Turenne; see BOUILLON and TURENNE. Madeleine de La Tour d'Auvergne (d. 1519) married Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino; mother of Queen Catherine de Medicis, who married Henri de Valois, later Henry II of France. Surnames: La Tour, La Ture, Latour, Le Tour Submitted by: Harrison L. Thomas Sr. Origin of Ure, Meaning of Ure Origin: Feminine of Aurelius, golden--little golden dame. Surnames: Aurelia Submitted by: Origin of Ure, Meaning of Ure Origin: Favre Old French origin means craftsman This name is the French version of Smith. It is a provencal form of the French occupational name Fevre, which decribed an iron-worker or smith. Surnames: Faure, Fabre, Faivre, Lefevre, Le Febvre Submitted by: glitz Origin of Ure, Meaning of Ure Origin: Caribbean Surnames: Laurence Submitted by: Lydia Origin of Ure, Meaning of Ure Origin: maurer in german language means a men who built a house. Surnames: maurer Submitted by: loretto magdalena Origin of Ure, Meaning of Ure Origin: Although origination of the surnames Cloer & Clore may have had different backgrounds, both surnames have undergone many changes since in America. Many times due to the way the person or the census taker or other person recording it "thought" it was spelled. Cloer, one of our main lines, is found in our family as Cloer, Clore, Cloar. Note these are of the same line but with different spellings. Also the war records reveal that many went in with "aliases" or were known 2 different ways. Cloer was often spelled McClure, Clore, Clure, Cloar just to name a few Surnames: Cloer, McClure, Clore, Clure, Cloar Submitted by: Bernice Raymond Origin of Ure, Meaning of Ure Origin: The first person with this surname that I find was born in Pia in 1631 - Pyr?n?es-Orientales corresponds largely to the former province of Roussillon (French Catalonia); This surname is one of the most important in LICATA (Sicily) where many hundred people have this surname. Surnames: Curella Submitted by: Gaetano-Antonio Origin of Ure, Meaning of Ure Origin: From France, the original name was Porfois, meaning Pure Faith. It was changed on immigration to the US to "Purifoy" and "Purefoy" Surnames: Purifoy, Purefoy Submitted by: Lindsey Johnson nee Purifoy Origin of Ure, Meaning of Ure Origin: Dominican Republic Surnames: Ureña Submitted by: 2/17/2012 10:02 AM Page 1 of 1

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