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

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

^ 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.

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[1] 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.

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