English (chiefly Devon): topographic name for someone who lived on
a piece of land that was thickly grown with gorse, from Old English
fyrse ‘gorse’, or a habitational name from a place named with
this word, as for example Furze in Devon and Cornwall.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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