Durfee History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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France

Early Origins of the Durfee family

The surname Durfee was first found in Gascony (French: Gascogne), an area of southwest France bordering Spain, that was part of the "Province of Guyenne and Gascony" prior to the French Revolution, where this eminent family held a family seat since ancient times.

Early History of the Durfee family

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Durfee Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Durfort, Durforte, Durfaurre, Deforte, Duforte, Desforte, Dufaute, Defaute, Durfort, Dufortes and many more.

Early Notables of the Durfee family

Notable amongst the family at this time was Jean de Durfort, Lord of Duras, Blanquefort and Villandrau, Mayor of Bordeaux in 1487, followed Charles VIII in the conquest of the Kingdom of Naples in 1474 and Louis XII to the Duchy of Milan, later to become the Governor of Drême in Lombardie.Louis Durfort or Duras Earl of Feversham (1640?-1709), was a general and the sixth son of Guy Aldonce de Durfort, marquis de Duras, by his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Henri de la...
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Durfee Ranking

In the United States, the name Durfee is the 7,156^th most popular surname with an estimated 4,974 people with that name. 1

Durfee migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Durfee Settlers in United States in the 19th Century

Neil Durfee, aged 40, who arrived in Massachusetts in 1813 2
E A Durfee, who landed in San Francisco, California in 1850 2

Contemporary Notables of the name Durfee (post 1700) +

Edmund Durfee Sr. (1788-1845), American settler and early member of the Latter Day Saint movement
Nathaniel Briggs Durfee (1812-1872), U.S. Representative from Rhode Island
Job Durfee (1790-1847), American politician and jurist
James Randall Durfee (1897-1977), United States Court of Claims judge and Chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board
Araminta Estelle "Minta" Durfee (1889-1975), American silent film actress
Henry R. Durfee, American politician, Delegate to New York State Constitutional Convention 26th District, 1894 3
Gideon H. Durfee, American Democratic Party politician, Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Rhode Island, 1864 3
Elihu Durfee, American politician, Member of New York State Assembly from Wayne County 2nd District, 1850 3
D. M. Durfee, American Democratic Party politician, Alternate Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Montana, 1912 3
Charles Durfee, American Republican politician, Member of Illinois State House of Representatives 51st District, 1907-11; Delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois, 1920 3
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Citations +

"What are the 5,000 Most Common Last Names in the U.S.?". NameCensus.com, https://namecensus.com/last-names/
Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2015, October 28) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html