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LOGES Family History

This unusual and interesting surname is of Portuguese origin, and is a topographical name from residence by a large flat rock or slab of stone. The derivation is from the Portuguese "lage, laja" (of uncertain, possibly Celtic, origin). Topographical surnames were among the earliest created, since both natural and man-made features in the landscape provided obvious and convenient means of identification in the small communities of the Middle Ages. The surname, with variant forms "Lage" and "De Lage", is well recorded in Church Registers of France, Spain and Portugal from the mid 18th Century.