Yeomans

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Yeomans is an English surname meaning son of Yeoman. Guppy reported it from Derbyshire and Herefordshire. [1]

Notable people with the surname include:

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Footnotes

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

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