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doe Name Meaning and History

  1. English and Scottish: nickname for a mild and gentle man, from Middle English do ‘doe’ (Old English da).
  2. 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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The doe name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the doe family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of doe Families in the US in 1920
Number of doe families
 58-113
 20-57		 1-19
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Threads: 45 - Messages: 119
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William Doe 1811-1876/Sarah Ridley 1816-1903 kylie252 0
Alice Jane Cheshire capelle123 0
Eliza Squibb capelle123 0
Doe's from England annie fredritz 18
Does of SC CentCent 3
Ann Doe - Cambridgeshire fengirl 0
Sarah Doe, b abt 1834, England AngelicaUK 20
David Doe {1893] miklejon65 1
Family Doe in Tucson, Arizona ingriddoe 0
Richard Doe b. 1844 Stoke by Clare, Suffolk malcolmdoe 0
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