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Mowbray

Updated: June 9, 2019
Updated: June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (of Norman origin) : habitational name from Montbrai in La Manche, France, named in Old French as ‘mud hill’, from Old French mont ‘hill’ (see Mont 1) + brai ‘mud’, ‘slime’ (of Gaulish origin).

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