cecilia <[email protected]> wrote on 17 feb 2015 in soc.genealogy.britain: > "Manglis a Vardon" was an immigrant in London in 1443 > > http://www.englandsimmigrants.com/person/12815 > > Nowadays, there are place names Vardon in Normandy. There are also > Vardon familes descended from Armenians. > > Does Manglis relate to a name I might recognise? > > Is he more likely to have come from France, or Armenia, or ... I would think of "Verdun", in Loraine, France, that originally was called Verodumum by the Romans. -- Evertjan. The Netherlands. (Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)

"Evertjan." <[email protected]> wrote on 17 feb 2015 in soc.genealogy.britain: > cecilia <[email protected]> wrote on 17 feb 2015 in soc.genealogy.britain: > >> "Manglis a Vardon" was an immigrant in London in 1443 >> >> http://www.englandsimmigrants.com/person/12815 >> >> Nowadays, there are place names Vardon in Normandy. There are also >> Vardon familes descended from Armenians. >> >> Does Manglis relate to a name I might recognise? >> >> Is he more likely to have come from France, or Armenia, or ... > > I would think of "Verdun", in Loraine, France, > that originally was called Verodumum by the Romans. However, the origin being Dutch & Flemish [perhaps from the Flemish-speaking Duinkerken region in France] name "Verduin" [="from the dune"] should not be ruled out, read: <http://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Vardon> -- Evertjan. The Netherlands. (Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)