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Help[Surname] Scottish Descent???
I was wondering what the background of the surname "URIE" was? I was thinking Scottish but please correct me.
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1 Scottish and English: variant spelling of Urey*.
2 Scottish: habitational name from Urie in Fetteresso parish, Kincardineshire.
*Urey
English and Scottish: from an Anglo-Norman French pronunciation of the Old and Middle English personal name Wolrich (see Wooldridge**).
** Wooldridge
English: from the Middle English personal name Wol(f)rich, Old English Wulfric, composed of the elements wulf ‘wolf’ + ric ‘power’.
(source: ancestry.com)
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