Edward Sorrel

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Sorrell Surname This surname is derived from a nickname. 'the sorel,' a nickname of complexion, of a reddish-brown colour. Old French sor, diminutive sorel; compare Blondel, Burnell, Russell; v. Sor. John Sorel, Oxfordshire, 1273. Hundred Rolls. Robert Sorel. Placitorum in domo capitulari Westmonasteriensi. Richard Sorel, c. 1300. Writs of Parliament. 'Sorrell Tempest, Whit Tempest, Baye Tempest,' names of three horses, 1526, belonging to Tempest family: Whitaker's Craven. 1684. Baptised - Timothy, s. Timothy Sorrell: St. James, Clerkenwell. 1797. Married - John Sorrill and Rachel Haslewood: St. George, Hanover Square. - A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames, written: 1872-1896 by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley. The Sorrells belong to an old Essex family. A family of Sorrel or Sorell possessed Hide Hall, Great Waltham, and other properties in that parish from 1650 to 1738, when the estates passed out of the direct male line; to this family belonged the living of Stebbing (W.). William Sorrell was an Essex gentleman who contributed £25 for the defence of his country at the time of the Spanish invasion of 1588 (Sp.). The name still occurs in Great Waltham. In the 13th century the name of Sorel occurred in Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, Bucks, Oxfordshire, and Devon (H. R.). - Homes of Family Names in Great Britain (1890) by Henry Brougham Guppy (A. - French - Teutonic) With Reddish-Brown or Yellowish-Brown Hair [Old French sorel, a diminutive: v. under Soar] John Sorel.-Hundred Rolls - Surnames of the United Kingdom (1912) by Henry Harrison Robert Sorel, Normandy 1180-95 (Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniae). Hugh Sorel, Matilda Sarle, Engl. c. 1272 (Rotuli Hundredorum). - The Norman People (1874) (English) The man with the reddish-brown complexion. Normandy's name is derived from the settlement of the territory by mainly Danish and Norwegian Vikings ("Northmen") from the 9th century, and confirmed by treaty in the 10th century between King Charles III of France and Earl Rollo of Møre, Norway. For a century and a half following the Norman conquest of England in 1066, Normandy and England were linked by Norman and Frankish rulers.

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@R-2138116480@ England & Wales, FreeBMD Death Index: 1837-1915 FreeBMD Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.Original data - General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes. London, England: General Register Office. © Crown copyright. Published by permission of the Contro 1,8914::0

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@R-2138116480@ England & Wales, FreeBMD Death Index: 1837-1915 FreeBMD Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.Original data - General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes. London, England: General Register Office. © Crown copyright. Published by permission of the Contro 1,8914::0

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