Yeoman (surname)

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Yeoman is an English surname derived from "yeoman". Guppy reported it from Yorkshire and Somerset. [1]

It may refer to:

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Footnotes

  1. Cottle, Basil (1967) The Penguin Dictionary of Surnames. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books; p. 330

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