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DURNING Family History

This unusual surname, recorded from the mid 16th Century in the English county of Lancaster, and in the Ulster county of Donegal, is of dual derivation, being either a locational name from Durn, a minor spot in the Littleborough urban district of Lancashire, or an Anglicized form of the Old Gaelic "O'Duirnin", descendant of the strong-fisted one, from "dorn", fist. Durn in Lancashire is believed to be so called from the Olde English pre 7th Century "derne", secret, hidden, sometimes given to places and rooks difficult to find.