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by tiltedlibra on January 28th, 2007

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Could someone PLEASE settle this bet? My sister believes our last name spelled De Lancey is IRISH; I say it is FRENCH, based on what I have read about Etienne De Lancey (no relation)

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  • by anonymous on January 28th, 2007

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    "The DeLancey family is one of French Huguenot descent. Many of the family in America descend from one Etienne (French for Stephen) DeLancey who was born in Caen, Normandy in 1663."

    http://www.geocities.com/heartland/acres/7647/variants.htm

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  • by CannedHam on January 28th, 2007

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    The name is French in origin.

    From http://www.last-names.net/surname.asp?surname=Delancy :

    Delancy: (origin: Fr. Local) De Lancy, from the town of Lancy, in the province of Burgundy, France.

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  • by singwell-is off researching a lot on April 8th, 2007

    singwell-is off researching a lot

    English: unexplained. The form De Lancey is also found in British records; it may well be a habitational name from Lancey in Isère, France.

    To know where your surname originates, there is only one sure method: tracing BACK from you to the original bearer of the name.
    In the case of the de Lanceys, you might well find that the name is both Irish AND French. From the Normans onwards, Ireland was seen as a place to plunder and conquer, particularly by younger sons of the nobility, who could not inherit their fathers' lands. So you get, in the upper class of Ireland, many with French surnames, descendants of these conquerors. Of course, their ultimate origins lay across the channel in Normandy, Burgundy, Brittany, Maine, and Flanders.

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  • by elle_000 on January 28th, 2007

    elle_000

    It is french

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  • by Darryl61 on January 28th, 2007

    Darryl61

    While I am no expert on your family name, I will venture my opinion. If it is actually written as 2 separate words (mine is as well) it is likely French.

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  • by Pogster on February 4th, 2007

    Pogster

    French

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  • by eddie1 on January 28th, 2007

    eddie1

    From what I have read it is French.

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  • by Constel on April 8th, 2007

    Constel

    as everyone sayz, it's French

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  • by Anonymous on January 28th, 2007

    Anonymous

    Its a french/irish name. anyone in the family from ireland? france?

    Ask your parents.

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