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The surname lagrow was first found in Normandy (French: Normandie), the former Duchy of Normandy, where this distinguished family was anciently seated at Gros, a village and seigneurie in the department of Eure in the canton of Amfreville. The first on record was about 1066 when Odon leGros was accused of the murder of Gilbert, Count of Brionne, although another historian ascribes the murder to an entirely different person.

lagrow Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Legros, LeGros, Legross, Legrow, Grosville and others.

lagrow Early History

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lagrow Early Notables (pre 1700)

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The Great Migration

Some of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: Elie Legros, who settled in Quebec in 1738 from Guyenne; Joseph Legros arrived in Quebec in 1690 from Normandy. In Newfoundland, the name was predominantly Legrow, and John Legrow settled in Broad Cove in 1776.

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Annuaire Général Héraldique Universel. Paris: Institut Héraldique, 1901. Print.
Doyle, William. The Oxford History of the French Revolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990. Print. (ISBN 0192852213).
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Bentley, Elizabeth P. Passenger Arrivals at the Port of New York 1820-1829. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1999. Print.
Browning, Charles H. Americans of Royal Descent. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing. Print.
Colletta, John P. They Came In Ships. Salt Lake City: Ancestry, 1993. Print.
Vaillancourt, Emile. La Conquete du Canada par les Normands. Biographie de la premiere generation Normande du Canada. Montreal: G. Ducharme, 1930. Print.
Hanks, Patricia and Flavia Hodges. A Dictionary of Surnames. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. Print. (ISBN 0-19-211592-8).
Crozier, William Armstrong Edition. Crozier's General Armory A Registry of American Families Entitled to Coat Armor. New York: Fox, Duffield, 1904. Print.
Bolton, Charles Knowles. Bolton's American Armory. Baltimore: Heraldic Book Company, 1964. Print.
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The lagrow Family Crest was acquired from the Houseofnames.com archives. The lagrow Family Crest was drawn according to heraldic standards based on published blazons. We generally include the oldest published family crest once associated with each surname.

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