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    1. Re: [SURNAME-ORIGINS] WERRETT and DERRETT
    2. LaChance

    3. Don't know if these will help, but found the following: DERRITT (English) Variant of DERRICK. GERRIT (Du.) Form of Gerhard (spear, hard) DARRACH, DARROCH GERRICK JERRATT, JARRATT a form of GARRETT JERRICK WARRICK ---Sources: A Dictionary of Surnames by Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges New Dictionary of American Family Names by Elsdon C. Smith Barbara Marcia Jewell wrote: >Hi > >I have looked in a few books but cannot find WERRETT or DERRETT >listed. Has anyone any suggestions to their origin. > >Thanks > >Marcia Jewell > >--=======5F5379CD=======-- > > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > >

    04/30/2003 08:48:52
    1. Re: [SURNAME-ORIGINS] WERRETT and DERRETT
    2. Marcia Jewell

    3. --=======578B4C7C======= Content-Type: text/plain; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-4D393DF6; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hi Barbara Thank you for the suggestions - I think both of these names are Gloucestershire ones, but I will investigate. Thanks again Marcia At 14:48 30/04/2003 -0700, you wrote: >Don't know if these will help, but found the following: >DERRITT (English) Variant of DERRICK. >GERRIT (Du.) Form of Gerhard (spear, hard) >DARRACH, DARROCH >GERRICK >JERRATT, JARRATT a form of GARRETT >JERRICK >WARRICK >---Sources: A Dictionary of Surnames by Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges >New Dictionary of American Family Names by Elsdon C. Smith >Barbara > > >Marcia Jewell wrote: > >>Hi >> >>I have looked in a few books but cannot find WERRETT or DERRETT >>listed. Has anyone any suggestions to their origin. >> >>Thanks >> >>Marcia Jewell >>--=======5F5379CD=======-- >> >> >>============================== >>To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, >>go to: >>http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >> >> >> > > > > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, >go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > --=======578B4C7C=======--

    05/01/2003 04:48:51