The spence Surname
spence Name Meaning and History
English and Scottish: metonymic occupational name for a servant
employed in the pantry of a great house or monastery, from Middle
English spense ‘larder’, ‘storeroom’ (a reduced form of Old
French despense, from a Late Latin derivative of
dispendere, past participle dispensus, ‘to weigh out or
dispense’).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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