Avery (surname)

Avery is an English surname that arrived in England after the Norman Conquest, derived from the French surname Evreux from the county Evreux in Normandy. The name came from the Galician-Portuguese name Abreu. It can also be found in the northern Spanish region of Navarra, where the House of Évreux was a ruling royal house from 1328 to 1441. At the time,[1] the name's frequency was highest in Devon (5.9 times the British average), followed by Sussex, Buckinghamshire, Rutland, Worcestershire, Oxfordshire, Kent, Warwickshire, Cornwall and Somerset.

Notable people with the surname include:

Activism

  • Byllye Avery, American health care activist
  • Greg Avery, British animal rights activist
  • Rachel Foster Avery, 19th century American suffragist
  • Rosa Miller Avery (1830–1894), American abolitionist, political reformer, suffragist, writer; mother-in-law of Rachel Foster Avery
  • John Avery, member of the Loyal 9, member of the Sons of Liberty.

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See also

References

  1. "Avery Meaning and Distribution". Forebears. Retrieved 25 January 2014.
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