The doe Surname
doe Name Meaning and History
- English and Scottish: nickname for a mild and gentle man, from Middle English do ‘doe’ (Old English da).
- English (of Norman origin): habitational name (Old French d’Eu) for someone from Eu in Seine-Maritime, France. The place name is either a dramatic reduction of Latin Augusta ‘(city of) Augustus’, or else derives from the Germanic element auwa ‘water meadow’, ‘island’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Threads: 45 - Messages: 130
| Thread | Author | Replies |
| Does of SC |
 CentCent
| 7 |
| Alvah Roderick (Rod) Doe, b. 1867 | Virginia Gordon | 1 |
| Alvah Roderick Doe | J. Thurber | 1 |
| Clara Belle Doe Nickelson |
marionbasile15
| 0 |
| William Doe 1811-1876/Sarah Ridley 1816-1903 |
kylie252
| 3 |
| William and Catherine Maxwell Doe, lived in Troy, NY | William Doe Catherine Maxwell | 3 |
| Alice Jane Cheshire |
capelle123
| 0 |
| Eliza Squibb |
capelle123
| 0 |
| Doe's from England | annie fredritz | 18 |
| Ann Doe - Cambridgeshire |
fengirl
| 0 |
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