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Light: Origin, Geographical Distribution
The same as Burrder. Louw or low is a Scotch word for flame or fire. Low-bellers, according to Blount, are men who go with a light and a bell; by the sight thereof birds sitting on the ground become somewhat stupefied, and so are covered with a net, and taken.
Light Surname Origin
Light: Place of Origin :  Warwickshire (United Kingdom) |  Hampshire (United Kingdom) |  Wiltshire (United Kingdom) |  London (United Kingdom) |  Kent (United Kingdom) |  Northamptonshire (United Kingdom)
Light: Online Family Trees
LIGHT Radway Grange, Warwickshire, England (United Kingdom) 1565 - 1599
LIGHT Sulgrave Manor, Sulgrave, Midlands de l'Est, Angleterre, (Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom) 1565 - 1565
LIGHT Horley (England, United Kingdom) 1478 - 1532
LIGHT Horley, Oxford (Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom) 1500 - 1500
LIGHT Horley, Stafford (Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom) 1546 - 1546
LIGHT Horley, Warwick (Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom) 1548 - 1550
LIGHT Radway, Grange, Oxford (Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom) 1526 - 1526
LIGHT Radway, Warwick (Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom) 1546 - 1547
LIGHT Downton (Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom) 1734 - 1861
LIGHT Redlynch (Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom) 1793 - 1820

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Light: Famous Genealogies
 The surname Light is related to the following famous family trees :
        WASHINGTON George (1732 - 1799)
Light: Books that contain this surname
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LIGHTHistory of Pittsburgh and Environs: Biographical (Volume 1)
Author: George Thornton Fleming, American Historical Company - Published in 1922
... married Rebecca Lightner, daughter of Joel Light-ner, of Lawrenceville, Pa., a lumber dealer of that district. a justice of the ...		 LIGHTThe biographical encyclopędia of Pennsylvania of the nineteenth century, 1874
Author: Galaxy publishing company, Philadelphia, pub. - Published in 1874
... mother was a daughter of Martin Light, one of the most prominent and influential politicians in this section of the ...
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