Delamare Family History

from any of the numerous places in Normandy, Brittany, and Maine named La Mare (‘the pool’), preceded by the French preposition de ‘of’. The surname is common in Normandy, especially in Seine Maritime and Eure, and appears in the Channel Islands from the early 14th century onwards.

It was the name of several powerful families in Anglo-Norman England, where it later developed pronunciations (see (2)) that help to distinguish it from the name borne by the Channel Islanders and by later French migrants, especially Huguenot refugees who settled in England in the 16th and 17th centuries.

see Delamere.