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drury Name Meaning and History

  1. English (Norman) and French: nickname from Old French druerie ‘love’, ‘friendship’, a derivative of dru ‘lover’, ‘friend’ (see Drew 3). In Middle English the word also had the concrete meanings ‘love affair’, ‘love token’, ‘sweetheart’.
  2. English (Norman) and French: from a Germanic personal name composed of Old High German triuwa ‘truth’, ‘trust’ + ric ‘power(ful)’.
  3. Irish (County Roscommon): English name adopted by bearers of Gaelic Mac an Druaidh ‘son of the druid’. Compare Drew 6.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of drury Families in the US in 1920
Number of drury families
 75-147
 26-74		 1-25
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Biddenden Drury's missing in 1901 nigel1308 8
Drury ancestors Larry Drury 28
Looking for my family and heritage. mjdrury78 2
George Drury 1751 Wendy Petersen 1
Holland Drury in Licking and Allen Counties, Ohio 1849-1880 RDrury0956 8
Drury's From Kent/Sussex tiggyfl 2
Drury Family of Escambia County Alabama jbowman190 0
Drury JWeeks8719 2
Charles Drury, Horse Dealer Frank 2
Willam Drury, born circa 1813 in Virginia phpascoe1 0
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