The furlong Surname
furlong Name Meaning and History
- English and Irish: apparently a topographic name from Middle English furlong ‘length of a field’ (from Old English furh ‘furrow’ + lang ‘long’), the technical term for the block of strips owned by several different persons which formed the unit of cultivation in the medieval open-field system of farming, or a habitational name from a minor place named with this word, such as Furlong in Devon or Shropshire. The surname is now chiefly common in Ireland, where a family of this name settled at the end of the 13th century.
- Possibly an Americanized form of French Ferland.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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