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SPRING Family History

This interesting surname, widely recorded in England and Germany, is of Anglo-Saxon origin, and is a topographical name deriving from the Olde English pre 7th Century "spring, spryng", a spring or well. In Middle English the word "spring" also meant "a plantation of young trees, especially one for rearing or harbouring game"; hence, "dweller by the spring", or "plantation". Sprenge in Germany is named from an equivalent of the above word, and in some instances, the name may be specifically locational from this spot.