170 Global VERRALL Family Members

VERRALL Family History

This interesting and unusual name is topographical, and is of Anglo-Saxon origin; It is a localized dialectal pronunciation of the Olde English pre 7th century placename Fierol, but now called Firle, a place near Lewis, in East Sussex. This placename and hence the later surname translates as the place of the oak trees. The village name is first recorded as "Firolaland" in the famous Anglo-Saxon Chronicles of 790 a.d., and later as Ferle in the Domesday Book of 1086, certain letters such as v and f being interchangeable in Medieval English.