The dorsey Surname

dorsey Name Meaning and History

English (of Norman origin): habitational name, with the preposition d(e), from Orsay in Seine-et-Orne, France, recorded in the 13th century as Orceiacum, from the Latin personal name Orcius + the locative suffix -acum.

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The dorsey name in History

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Distribution of dorsey Families in the US in 1920

Number of dorsey families

453-904

152-452

1-151

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DNA Project Update	Nancy Custer	4
Wilbert Eugene Dorsey	SGainoutdinov	0
John Harper Dorsey	LarryShoop	2
Dorsey, James	Kelly Williams	3
David Alexander Dorsey	PatraciaStonesifer	0
julia dorsey	lindadougan047138	0
julia dorsey	lindamariedougan	0
Helen Laura Dorsey	LarryShoop	0
Jay Dorsey	LarryShoop	0
John Dorsey, b. 1800, married Catherine Fitzwater Simms) Possibly Nicholas Co WV	normansden	8

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