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Dossier: 600606
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Last name
Floyd

Nobility: Knights - Lords - Baronets
Nobles in:
England - France (Wales - Devonshire - Brittany)
Variations Last name:
Floyd de Tréguibé, Floyd de Treguibi, Fludd
Language of the text: English

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Floyd
(Floyd de Tréguibé, Floyd de Treguibi, Fludd)

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The surname Floyd is of Welsh origin. This is the English attempt at pronouncing the Welsh Lloyd. The name was a nickname for a person with grey hair or who had habitually dressed in grey, from Welsh 'llwyd', grey. "Myfi yw Llwyd uab Cilcoed", I am Lloyd, son of Kilcoed. The word nickname is derived from "an eke-name" or added name, and since surnames originated as added names for help in identification, all surnames are, in a sense, nicknames. One of the signatories of the American Declaration of Independance bore this name, William Floyd ( 1734-1821 ), a wealthy landowner born on Long Island. His family had first settled there with his great-grand-father Richard Floyd, who emigrated from Wales in the seventeenth century. Despite his comfortable circumstances, at the age of 69 Floyd purchased a tract of wilderness in Oneida county and spent the rest of his life as a

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Floyd
(Floyd de Tréguibé, Floyd de Treguibi, Fludd)

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Floyd


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Floyd

De sable, au lion rampant et regardant d'argent, au chef bastillé d'or, ch. d'une épée au naturel enfilant une couronne à l'antique de gueules, entre deux rencontres de tigre au naturel. Cimier: le lion de l'écu, sommé d'une couronne murale de gueules et tenant de ses pattes l'étendard de Trippoo Saïb. Devise: PATIENS PULVERIS ATQUE SOLIS

Blason de la famille Floyd en Devonshire (Baronet, 1816); source: "Armorial Général par J.B.Rietstap - Deuxième èdition refondue et augmentée - Tome I A-K".

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Floyd


46174/46174

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Floyd

Argent, a griffin seagreant azure.

Floyd from England

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3. Coat of arms of family:
Floyd, Fludd


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Floyd, Fludd

Vert; a chevron argent between three wolf heads of the same.

Coat of arms of family Floyd or Fludd from England

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4. Coat of arms of family:
Floyd


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Floyd

Argent, a chevron sable between three crows of the same.

Coat of arms of family Floyd from England. Source: "Armorial de Bretagne" by POTIER DE COURCY

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5. Coat of arms of family:
De Floyd de Tréguibé


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De Floyd de Tréguibé

D'argent, au chevron de sable, acc. de trois corneilles du même.

Blason de les familles Floyd de Tréguibé et Floyd de Treguibi en Bretagne. Sources: "Armorial Général par J.B.Rietstap - Deuxième èdition refondue et augmentée - Tome II L-Z"; "Familles recensées sur la France" JOUGLA DE MORÉNAS; .

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