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Devereux

Field	Value
name	Devereux
region	Wales, Ireland and England
origin	Wales, Herefordshire
otherfamilies	D'Évreux ("of Évreux", France), Devereaux and Deveraux

Devereux is a Norman surname. Derived form of D'Evreux / Devreux, meaning d'Évreux ("from Évreux", a town in Normandy, France), the surname is found frequently in Ireland, Wales and England and to a lesser extent elsewhere in the English-speaking world.

Saint Devereux Church in Hereford, United Kingdom is also named Saint Dubricius and is dedicated to the 6th century clergyman Saint Dubricius from Hereford, suggesting that the name is a Norman French rendering of Dubricius or the saint's Welsh name Dyfrig. In Ireland, the name is associated with Wexford, where the Cambro-Normans first invaded from Pembrokeshire, Wales in 1170. Anglo-Norman develops regularly a svarabakhti vowel /e/ between /v/ and /r/, such as in overi (French ouvrit "opened"), or livere (French livre "book"). Dubricius is called Dubrice in French and Dyfrig would have given *Difry / *Dufry in French and *Difery / *Dufery in Anglo-Norman, and St. Devereux is probably a mistranslation after the surname Devereux. The French variant is Devreux, which unlike Devereux is found within Normandy and France themselves.

The similar names Devereaux and Deveraux are alternate spellings of the surname resulting from the various ways of pronouncing it – the placename is pronounced "Dev-ruh" (), and the surname may be pronounced "Dever-o", "Dever-oo", "Dever-ooks", "Dev-erah", "Dev-rah", "Dev-ruh", or (in and around Wexford) "Dev-rix".

People

Count of Évreux, title of French nobility at the origin of the name
Catherine Ann Devereux (1823–1875), American diarist
Elizabeth Devereux-Rochester (1917–1983), British female spy
George Devereux (1908–1985), French-Hungarian ethnologist and psychoanalyst (born in Lugoj, nowadays part of Romania)
Helena Devereux (1885–1975), American educator and founder of the Devereux Foundation
James Devereux (1903–1988), U.S. Marine Corps General and politician
Jim Devereux (1885–1936), Australian rugby league footballer
John Devereux (disambiguation)
Lillie Devereux Blake (1833–1913), American feminist
Marie Devereux (1940–2019), British actress
Mary Bayard Devereux (1827–1886), American writer and photographer
Nicholas Devereux (1791–1855), Irish-American banker, trustee, and western New York landowner
General Ricardo Wall y Devereux (1694–1777), Spanish General and Prime Minister of the 18th-century
Richard Devereux (disambiguation)
Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex (1565–1601), military hero and royal favourite, executed for treason
Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex (1591–1646), son of Robert Devereux, courtier and soldier
Robin Devereux, 19th Viscount Hereford (born 1975), a peer and premier viscount
Sean Devereux (1964–1993), British educator, aid worker and missionary
Wallace Charles Devereux (1893–1952), British metallurgist and businessman, founder of High Duty Alloys Ltd.
Walter Devereux (disambiguation) is a name shared by several members of the same family
William Devereux, Baron Devereux of Lyonshall (c.1244–1314), a Marcher Lord in the times of Edward I and II in England

Organizations

Devereux Foundation, U.S. non-profit organization founded by Helena Devereux
Devereux Glenholme School, Connecticut

Places

Devereux (Herefordshire), lost village in the United Kingdom
Devereux, Georgia, a community in the United States
Devereux Creek, Queensland, a locality in the Mackay Region, Australia
St Devereux (Herefordshire), church and parish south of Hereford, originally dedicated to the Welsh Saint Dyfrig, Bishop of Ergyng
Devereux Beach, a beach near the campus of the University of California, Santa Barbara
Devereux Beach, a beach in Marblehead, Massachusetts

References

"About Us". The Archibishops' Council.
"St Dubricius, Gwenddwr".
"DYFRIG (DUBRICIUS), saint (fl. 475?)".
Jacques Allières, ''La formation de la langue française'', coll. Que sais-je ?, Presses universitaires de France, 1982, p. 121.
"LA FRANCE DU NOM DE FAMILLE DES DEVREUX en France entre 1891 et 1915".

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