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The Gernon surname in historical dictionaries

Patronymica Britannica (1860)

GERNON. Robert dc Gernon came into England with the Conqueror, and his descendant, Ralph de Gernon, temp. Hen. II., had two sons: 1.— Ralph, ancestor of the Gernons and Cavendishes of England ; and 2. — Roger, who accompanied Strongl>ow into Ireland, and became progenitor of the Irish Gernons still subsisting at Athcarne Castle, co. Meath. Of the locality of Gernon, whence at the Conquest the family came, I am ignorant ; but it appears not to be in Normandy. Gernun, Gernoun. H.R.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.

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