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Re: my last name
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From Rayne (Essex) or Raines (obviously a historic place-name) or Rennes (France)

This ist what P.H.Reaney, A Dictionary of Surnames, Oxford 1997, has.
Unfortunately A.D.Mills, Dictionary of Place-names, Oxford 1998, fails here.

Andy ;—)
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