Last name: LAWRENCE
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LAWRENCE : This last name is indexed 610,901 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
LAWRENCE : Flourishing, spreading, from Laurus, the laurel-tree. Sir Robert Lawrence, of Ashton Hall, Lancashire, England, accompanied Richard I. to the Holy Land, 1191.
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