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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (Cornwall) : metonymic occupational name for someone who worked in wash house, Middle English lavendrie.
  • English (Cornwall) : from the Old French personal name Landri, from a Germanic name composed of the elements land ‘land’ + rīc ‘power’.

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