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Are you sure that this is an English surname? I can't find any evidence. According to the "Geogen" website there is one Irex in the German telephone directory, and the familysearch databank records one Irex marriage in 18th century Cologne.
I wonder if the name Irex Road, Lowestoft, commemorates a shipwreck, see here -
http://www.backofthewight.co.uk/irex.htm
Perhaps the ship or the crew had a Lowestoft connection.
I wonder if the name Irex Road, Lowestoft, commemorates a shipwreck, see here -
http://www.backofthewight.co.uk/irex.htm
Perhaps the ship or the crew had a Lowestoft connection.
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The form suggests a Latin origin, i at first thought this must be a variant of another name but nothing could close could be found.
Is it originally a English name? here i'm unsure but i have found a few previously on the Suffolk/ Norfolk border in East Anglia
Irex Road in Pakefield, Lowestoft, i have found no connection with the boat wreck, which was several hundred miles away, this would seem unlike.
That stuck where to look next....
Is it originally a English name? here i'm unsure but i have found a few previously on the Suffolk/ Norfolk border in East Anglia
Irex Road in Pakefield, Lowestoft, i have found no connection with the boat wreck, which was several hundred miles away, this would seem unlike.
That stuck where to look next....
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I still haven't found a reference to an English person surnamed Irex. Reaney and Wilson list the surname Rex, or Recks, which they explain as "dweller by the rushes".
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