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Palfrey

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

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (chiefly Devon) : metonymic occupational name for a man responsible for the maintenance and provision of saddle-horses, from Middle English palfrey ‘saddle-horse’ (Old French palefrei).

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