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Somaruga, extremely rare, it is typical of the Varese, Carnago and Busto Arsizio, Sommaruga is specific to the area of the Varese and the North Milanese, should derive from names of localities or even from nicknames originated from the fact of inhabiting families in a street ( Ruga) in elevated position (Summa), proving the first hypothesis we find in the Church of San Sepolcro in Milan, in a recording dated 1360, the following inscription: ".. Illorum de Merate et de Somaruga.. ", where the town of Somaruga is evidently considered the same as Merate (LC). An ancient form of these surnames may have been Samaruga, cited as a nickname, or as the beginning of cognominization, in a paper investiture Controversy for Mercatum Nomine Venditionis of 1191 in Milan: "... Actum Mediolani. Signa manuum suprascriptorum Ambroxii et Petri atque Reffutati, qui hanc cartam ut supra proud rogaverunt. Signa manuum Anselmi qui dicitur Samaruga et Grimoldi de Moetia atque Iohannis de Landriano, Testium. Ego Obizo Samaruga Notarius sacred pallatii Tradidi et subscripsi. Ego Anselmus here Dicor Samaruga, Notarius sacred pallatii, Scripsi and Interfui. ", this would confirm the origin of these surnames from names of localities, names certainly originated from the term Celta Samara (quiet), in support of this hypothesis we cite the name of Place names such as the ancient Samarobriua (in the vicinity of Amiens in France) or the Spanish Samarugo, still existing in Galicia. Very ancient traces of these cognominizations we find for example in Milan in 1100, when a Anselmus Somaruga exercises the Profession of notary, in Gallarate in the second half of the
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