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Re: Surname Temporal
I think you've summed up the complete history of 'Temporal'. But it is interesting that the name Oscar was all but unknown before 1760, when the Ossian Poems were published. So it is all but certain that your ancestors changed their surname twice in just over a century.
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Temporal is a Catalan surname, it means 'tempest, thunderstorm'.
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