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So: Origin, Geographical Distribution
Welsh. So called from Menai, a strait which divides the island of Anglesea from the coast of Wales. The Mena or Mona, worshiped by the Sequani, was the moon. The Gaels blessed the beams of this luninary that saved them from the danger of precipices, and Augustine says that the Gaelic peasants invoked Mena for the welfare of their women.
So Surname Origin
So: Place of Origin :  London (United Kingdom) |  Oxfordshire (United Kingdom) |  Lothian (United Kingdom) |  Strathclyde (United Kingdom) |  Norfolk (United Kingdom) |  Lancashire (United Kingdom)
So: Online Family Trees
SO. WALES TEWDWR "MAUR-THE GREAT" AP Deheubarth (Wales, United Kingdom) 1000 - 1000

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So: Books that contain this surname
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SOThe Prindle Genealogy: Embracing the Descendants of William Pringle the ...
Author: Franklin Cogswell Prindle - Published in 1906
... April SO, 1816, Abby Bassett, dau. of William and Dinah (Blakeslee) Bassett, of Watertown, Conn., ...		 SOThe book of Clevelanders: a biographical dictionary of living men of the city of Cleveland
Author: Burrows Brothers Company, Cleveland - Published in 1914
... Feb. 10, 1874, son of August and Adelhaid (Eckhardt) So-Umann, educated, gymnasium, Coburg, 1884-1888, special studies, 1888-1893, student of pharmacy, ...
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