Le Patourel
Le Patourel (with the variant Pasturel) is a surname found mainly on the island of Guernsey. It comes from the Anglo-Norman French appellation le pastorel ('the shepherd, simpleton'), which is in origin a diminutive of pastour ('shepherd'). At the 1881 census of the United Kingdom, 96 people in Great Britain bore the name; as of about 2016, 15 people bore the name in Great Britain and none in Ireland.[1]
People
[edit]Notable people with the name include:
- Wallace Le Patourel (1916–1979), British soldier
- Jean Le Patourel (1915–2011), British archaeologist
- John Le Patourel (1909–1981), British historian
- Owen Le Patourel Franklin (1905–1979), English composer
References
[edit]- ↑ The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, ed. by Patrick Hanks, Richard Coates, and Peter McClure, 4 vols (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), III, p. 1571 [s.v. Le Patourel]; ISBN 978-0-19-967776-4.
This page lists people with the surname Le Patourel.
If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name(s) to the link.
If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name(s) to the link.