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Language of the text: English
Nobility: Knights - Lords - Baronets
Nobles in:England - France (Wales - Devonshire - Brittany)
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Variations Last name: Floyd de Tréguibé,Floyd de Treguibi,Fludd
Variations of surnames are frequent and mainly derive from involuntary acts such as translation errors or dialectal inflections or from voluntary acts such as attempts to escape persecution or acquisition of titles and properties of other families
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Floyd
Variations Last name: Floyd de Tréguibé,Floyd de Treguibi,Fludd
English
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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BlazonFloyd
Variations Last name: Floyd de Tréguibé,Floyd de Treguibi,Fludd
1. Coat of arms of family: Floyd
Language of the text: Français
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".
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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