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glanville Name Meaning and History

  1. (of Norman origin) habitational name from a place in Calvados, France, named from a Germanic personal name of uncertain form and meaning + Old French ville ‘settlement’.
  2. habitational name from Glanvill Farm in Devon, Clanville in Somerset and Hampshire, or Clanfield in Hampshire, or from some other place likewise named with Old English cl?ne ‘clean’ (i.e. free of brambles and undergrowth) + feld ‘pasture’, ‘open country’ (see Field).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The glanville name in History

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Distribution of glanville Families in the US in 1920
Number of glanville families
 11-20
 4-10		 1-3
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 48 - Messages: 199
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glanville barry4151 0
GLANVILLE caveillg 3
William Glanville, still ageless but in a narrowed field. jembennett 0
Glanville - Cornwall, England greatland1 29
George Bernard Glanville and Rosina May Dench lena07 0
GLANVILLE FAMILY Steve Watson 3
William Glanville Ann Clark sherrild 3
Question JPNWV 0
CHARLES OR PAUL GLANVILLE joekir49 11
glanville terrimsavage 0
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