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STRANGE

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Region of origin

British Isles

Country of origin

England

Language of origin

English

Religion of origin

Christian

Classification

English


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The Strange surname in historical dictionaries

STRANGE. According to some genealogists this family first appear in England at certain jousts of arms, which took place at Peverell's Castle, in the Peak of Derbyshire. There were present on the occasion Owen, Prince of AVales, a Scottish Prince, and two sous of the Duke of Brittany, one of Avhom, from his foreign birth, was called Guido le Strange, and became progenitor of the various baronial liouses of L'Estrange and Stra7ige. " Tliis race of Je Strange contin\ied for many descents in the dignity of lords barons, in Latine records called Exiranei, for that they Avere strangers, brought hither by King Henry the Second,

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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