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LARNER Family History

Recorded as Larn, Larne, Larner, Lardner, and Lerner, this is usually a surname of English origins. It has at least three possible sources, each with its own distinct derivation. Firstly it may be an early medieval English occupational surname for a scholar or a schoolmaster, derived from the Olde English pre 7th Century word "leornian". Job-descriptive surnames originally denoted the actual occupation of the amebearer, and gradually became hereditary. The second possible source of the name is from Suffolk, where a family whose surname was recorded as "de lauueney" in 1327, and as "Lawney" in 1381, had by the 16th Century become Larner's, and gave their name to Larner's Wood in Little Saxham.