Dury Family History
Dury Name Meaning
French: habitational name from any of several places named
Dury, in Aisne, Pas-de-Calais, and Somme.French and Swiss German:
topographic name for someone who lived by a stream, du ry ‘from
the stream’. Because ry has fallen out of use, the name has
been translated as Rice, the French word for ‘rice’,
riz, being a homophone.English: either a
habitational name from Dury in Lydford, Devon, or of French origin
(see 1), the surname having been taken to England by the Huguenots.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Dury
Name Distribution of Dury Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Dury families
 49 - 95  17 - 48 |
 1 - 16  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Dury families
|
2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Dury census records
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Dury Family Origin
Dury Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Dury Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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Military Service by Dury
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