Last name: FERRERS
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FERRERS : This last name is indexed 107,034 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
FERRERS : 1: from Ferrières-Saint-Hilaire in Broglie (Eure) which is recorded as Fererias in about 1000 and Ferrières in Le Teilleul (Manche). The place-names derive from Latin ferraria ‘ironworks place where iron ore is extracted’. 2: variant of Farrar (compare Ferrer) with post-medieval excrescent -s.
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