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Anonymous asked in Arts & HumanitiesGenealogy · 3 weeks ago

where does the surname of 'Dorsey' originate? where would find the most people with this surname? what it means?

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  • Maxi
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    3 weeks ago
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    Word history is nothing at all to do with genealogy......... it is an English language word, could be habitational name from  Orsay in Seine-et-Orne, France after the Normans invaded, could be an English words taken/translated from the Latin language ( which the British spoke) from the personal name Orcius, could be a mis spelling of Dorset another habitational word or Dorsey or Dorsy which is a small village and townland between Belleeks and Cullyhanna in County Armagh, Northern Ireland UK....... the ONLY way to find out is to research back and prove ancestry

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