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Foss/Fosse
« on: Friday 15 February 08 21:14 GMT (UK) »
Does anyone know about the origins of the Foss(e) surname? I've found references to immigration from France to Beaulieu, Hampshire in the 1700s, and there are suggestions about possible Huguenot origins.

There certainly don't seem to be many references before about 1770, but I guess that's a problem for a lot of people  Roll Eyes

Any additional clues would be welcome.  Smiley

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Baskervill - Devon, Foss - Hants, Gentry - Essex, Metherell - Devon, Partridge - Essex/London, Press - Norfolk/London, Stone - Surrey/Sussex, Stuttle - Essex, Wheate - Middlesex/Essex/Coventry/Rutland/Oxfordshire/Staffs, Gibson - Essex
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Re: Foss/Fosse
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 16 February 08 08:01 GMT (UK) »
Hi MIke

The Oxford Dictionary of Surnames says:
John del Fosse 1199 MemR (Sx) John atte,de la Fosse 1295, 1330 MELS (So) 'Dweller by the ditch' In Somerset the surname is recorded from Doulting and Shepton Mallet, on each side of the Fosse Way, along which lie three farms named Fosse in Wilts, four in Warwicks and two in Notts. 

MemR - Memoranda Roll
MELS - M T Lofvenberg Studies on Middle English Local Surnames Lund 1942

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Re: Foss/Fosse
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 16 February 08 08:32 GMT (UK) »
Thanks Kerry  Smiley

I did know that fosse was an early English name for a ditch or dike but I hadn't come across those medieval references to Fosse. It looks as if they may have been here longer than I thought.

I'd really like to find out whether there is any substance in the stories about the French connection. They do seem to have arrived in the New Forest area around 1770.

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Baskervill - Devon, Foss - Hants, Gentry - Essex, Metherell - Devon, Partridge - Essex/London, Press - Norfolk/London, Stone - Surrey/Sussex, Stuttle - Essex, Wheate - Middlesex/Essex/Coventry/Rutland/Oxfordshire/Staffs, Gibson - Essex
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