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MARLOW Family History

Recorded as Marlow and Marlowe, this interesting surname is English. It is locational from the town of Marlow in Buckinghamshire, on the River Thames. The placename is recorded as "Merlave" in the Domesday Book of 1086, from the Old English pre 7th Century elements "mere" meaning a lake, plus "lafe" remnants, hence "a boggy area remaining after a lake had been drained". The surname is first recorded in the latter half of the 11th Century, (see below). One, Wido de Merlaue, is noted in the Curia Regis Rolls, Buckinghamshire, (1225), and Richard de Merlawe, appears in the Coroners Rolls of London (1325)...