Avner History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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Early Origins of the Avner family

The surname Avner was first found in Lorraine, where ancestors of the bearers of this family name have lived since ancient times. This eminent family held estates and manors in the honor of the seigneurie of Lavoie in the department of La Meuse in the canton of Triaucourt in the arrondissement of Bar-le-Duc. This region traversed the border of Belgium and Holland, and frequently the French settlers in that area were known as Walloons. Since the border moved back and forth through the early centuries, it is difficult to establish at any given time whether this was actually French territory or Belgium. There are also records of this family having moved into neighbouring Holland, where they acquired estates. They also branched into Brittany, Liege, and Maine. In Brittany they held a family seat at Penhoet. The family also branched to D'Iseron in Forez.

Early History of the Avner family

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Avner Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Lavoi, Lavoie, Lavoy, Lavoye, Lavois, Levoi, Levoie, Levoy, Levois, Levot, Lavot, Lavoix and many more.

Early Notables of the Avner family

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Migration of the Avner family

Some of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: René De La Voye, son of René and Isabelle Bélanger, born in Rouen, France (1628), who married Anne Godin in Québec city on the 19th April 1656.

Contemporary Notables of the name Avner (post 1700) +

William Avner Paschal (1921-2003), American football running back in the National Football League
Avner Offer, English economic historian who held the Chichele Professorship in Economic history at the University of Oxford
Avner Dorman (b. 1975), Israeli composer
Avner Greif (b. 1955), American economics professor at Stanford University