Loys History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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France

Early Origins of the Loys family

The surname Loys was first found in Lorraine, where the family has been a prominent family for centuries, and held a family seat with lands and manor. The family were well established in the region of Nancy and several members of the family distinguished themselves through their contributions toward the community in which they lived and were rewarded with lands, titles and letters patent confirming their nobility. They held estates in both Lorraine and Brittany but the earliest records are in Lorraine. They were nobility in Lorraine from 1578 to 1724.

Early History of the Loys family

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Loys Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Louis, Loys, Lews, Luys, Lewey, Lewie, Looie, Luyie, Louyey and many more.

Early Notables of the Loys family

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Migration of the Loys family

Some of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: Antoine Luois who arrived in Louisiana in 1720; Francois Louis who settled in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1752; Charles Louis who arrived in Louisiana in 1757.

Contemporary Notables of the name Loys (post 1700) +

Jean-Philippe Loys de Cheseaux (1718-1751), Swiss astronomer from Lausanne in Switzerland
Louis François Fernand Hector de Loys (1892-1935), Swiss oil geologist, best known for the claim that he discovered a previously unknown primate, De Loys's ape, during a 1920 oil survey expedition in Venezuela, but it is now thought to have been a spider monkey