Dury Family History

French: habitational name from Dury, the name of several places in the north of France, e.g. in Aisne, Pas-de-Calais, and Somme, from the Gallo-Roman estate Duriacum.

French and Walloon: topographic name with fused preposition and definite article du ‘from the’ for someone who lived by a stream from regional French ry and Walloon ri ‘stream’ (from Latin rivus); or a habitational name for someone from Le Ry, a place e.g. in Wallonia (Belgium). This surname is also found in the Flemish part of Belgium. Compare Durieux.

English: either a habitational name from Dury in Lydford, Devon, or a name of French origin (see above), the surname having been taken to England by the Huguenots.

Scottish: variant of Durie.