Last name: SPENCE
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SPENCE : This last name is indexed 188,493 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
SPENCE : English and Scottish: nickname for a servant employed in the pantry of a great house or monastery from Middle English spense spence ‘pantry larder storeroom’ (Old French despense from a Late Latin derivative of dispendere past participle dispensus ‘to weigh out or dispense’). Compare Spencer.
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