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Onward Catholic Soldiers: The Catholic Church during the American Civil War
Acton Institute ^ | Fall 2011 | Mark Summers

Posted on 09/09/2014 10:52:49 AM PDT by Pelham

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My GGrandmothers last name was Durrah, Scots for de Roche(SP), go figure.
81 posted on 09/13/2014 8:35:26 AM PDT by Little Bill (EVICT Queen Jean)
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Sounds like the typical corruption French names undergo among the anglo saxons and the Celts.

wikipedia has this:

“The first Norman knight to land in Ireland was Richard fitz Godbert de Roche in 1167,”

I wasn’t aware that the Norman conquest included Ireland. Probably Scotland as well.


82 posted on 09/13/2014 11:24:03 PM PDT by Pelham (California, what happens when you won't deport illegals)
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Yes

Henry II

it proved problematic


83 posted on 09/13/2014 11:41:03 PM PDT by wardaddy (Ferguson MO...but i thought blacks went north to escape the racism of mean ol southerners)
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