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JURY Family History

This interesting surname, with variant spelling Jewry, derives from the Anglo-French "juerie", (Olde French "juierie"), meaning Jewry, and was originally given either as a habitational name to a member of the Jewish Community living in that section of a town, or as a topographical name to a non-Jew living near the Jewish quarters of a town or city. Most Medieval English cities had certain parts occupied exclusively by members of a particular religious persuasion, and the following quotation from Chaucers's "Canterbury Tales", (the Prioress' Tale), reads, "Ther was in Asie, in a gret citee, Amonges Cristen folk a Jewerie".