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Re: last name SARNEY

by Jim Young (guest)

1/4/2005, 5:49 AM

Is this a British surname? I've found no reference to it apart from an entry in a genealogical directory which informs that the name was in Oxford pre-1900.
The nearest to Sarney I've found is Sarne, a Jewish surname from a Lithuanian place-name.

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- Jim Young (guest) +1

1/5/2005, 5:41 AM

Correction: having surfed the web I find references to a Sarney family in Gloucestershire, early 16th century; also in Oxfordshire, 16th century. Still don't know what it means though. Perhaps a place-name ending in -ey, "island."

- sarney (guest)

10/23/2019, 7:08 AM

maternal line my grandmother was a sarney

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