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ROUND Family History

This interesting name is of early medieval English origin, and derives from a nickname for someone considered to have a 'rounded', plump, figure. The name derives from the Middle English and Old French 'rond, rund', rotund, round, from the Latin 'rotundus', a derivative of 'rotare', turn, form 'rota', wheel. The term was introduced into England by the Normans after the Conquest of 1066. The surname from this source is first recorded at the beginning of the 13th Century (see below). One, Alecok Ronde appears in the 1246 Assize Court Rolls of Lancashire and an Alen Lerond in the 1377 Assize Court Rolls of Essex.