Drury Family History
Drury Name Meaning
English (Norman) and French: nickname from Old French
druerie ‘love’, ‘friendship’, a derivative of dru
‘lover’, ‘friend’ (see Drew 3). In Middle English the word also
had the concrete meanings ‘love affair’, ‘love token’,
‘sweetheart’.English (Norman) and French: from a Germanic
personal name composed of Old High German triuwa ‘truth’,
‘trust’ + ric ‘power(ful)’.Irish (County
Roscommon): English name adopted by bearers of Gaelic Mac an
Druaidh ‘son of the druid’. Compare Drew 6.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Drury
Name Distribution of Drury Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Drury families
 459 - 915  154 - 458 |
 1 - 153  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Drury families
|
19 - 35 7 - 18 |
1 - 6 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Drury Family Origin
Drury Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Drury Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Drury Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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