The ancestry of the name Farloe dates from the ancient
Anglo-Saxon culture of Britain. It comes from when the family lived in the region of
Fairleigh or
Fairley. The surname Farloe is a
topographic surname, which was given to a person who resided near a physical feature such as a hill, stream, church, or type of tree.
Habitation names form the other broad category of surnames that were derived from place-names.
Early Origins of the Farloe family
The surname Farloe was first found in
Shropshire at Farlow, a small village and civil parish that dates back to the
Domesday Book of 1086 where it was listed as Ferlau
[1]CITATION[CLOSE]
Williams, Dr Ann. And G.H. Martin, Eds., Domesday Book A Complete Translation. London: Penguin, 1992. Print. (ISBN 0-141-00523-8) and literally meant "fern-covered mound or hill"
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Mills, A.D., Dictionary of English Place-Names. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. Print. (ISBN 0-19-869156-4) from the Old English words "fearn" + "hlaw." Traditionally part of
Herefordshire, it was part of the
hundred of Stottesden. Farlow or Fawler is a chapelry, in the parish of Sparsholt, union of Farringdon, hundred of Shrivenham in Berkshire.
[3]CITATION[CLOSE]
Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England. Institute of Historical Research, 1848, Print.
Early History of the Farloe family
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Farloe Spelling Variations
Spelling variations in names were a common occurrence before English spelling was standardized a few hundred years ago. In the Middle Ages, even the literate spelled their names differently as the English language incorporated elements of French, Latin, and other European languages. Many variations of the name Farloe have been found, including Farlow, Farlough and others.
Early Notables of the Farloe family (pre 1700)
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Migration of the Farloe family to Ireland
Some of the Farloe family moved to
Ireland, but this topic is not covered in this excerpt.
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Migration of the Farloe family to the New World and Oceana
Families began migrating abroad in enormous numbers because of the political and religious discontent in
England. Often faced with persecution and starvation in
England, the possibilities of the New World attracted many English people. Although the ocean trips took many lives, those who did get to North America were instrumental in building the necessary groundwork for what would become for new powerful nations. Some of the first immigrants to cross the Atlantic and come to North America bore the name Farloe, or a variant listed above:
Farloe Settlers in United States in the 17th Century
- Joyce and Grace Farloe, who settled in Virginia in 1648
- Grace Farloe, who landed in Virginia in 1655 [4]CITATION[CLOSE]
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)