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MARY Family History

Recorded in over fifty spelling surname forms ranging from Marie, Maria and Mary, to diminutives such as Marielle, Mariete, Maryon, and Marusik, and to metronymics and transpositions such as Marian, Mariyushkin, Manyurin, Marin, Maring, Myrie and Myring, this is a name of both uncertain origin and uncertain meaning. In most cases the name probably derived from the Hebrew 'Maryam' the modern Mary or Marie, and given as being the mother of Jesus. Certainly its popularity followed the famous Crusades of the 11th and 12th centuries to the Holy Land when returning knights and warriors gave their children biblical or Greecian names in commemoration of their 'visit'...