Furround is used as a family name or surname in England. It is 8 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Furround
No. of characters: 8
Origin: England
Meaning:

A variant of Farand. See Farrant - The English form of Ferdinandus, Spanish Fernandez, Italian Ferando, Old French Ferant

In Lincolnshire farrand means deep, cunning.

Variant form of Ferrand. Descendant of Ferrand, a contraction of Ferdinand meaning "journey, venture"; one who had iron-gray, or graying, hair.

The form of Fearon. Feron, anciently Le Feron. Le Feyron, (Hundred Rolls) A name still well known in Normandy: derived by M. de Gerville from the same source as Ferrier-viz., from fer, ferrum—a worker in iron. There are horse-shoes in the arms of one family of this name.

Furround is the form of Ferrand. "Imported at a very early period into the deanery of Craven, in Yorkshire, from Normandy, where it is still to be met with. From seems to be no ground for such distinction. William de Fortibus, earl of Albemarle, Hugh Ferrand, in the XIII. century had a deed of grant to himself and his heirs of the office of Warder of Skipton castle." B.L.G.

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