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Etymologically speaking, it comes from the 10th century, when one of the family worked as a type of a military officer that was comparable to a modern sergeant. In the 13th and 14th centuries, it came to designate a young man who was in training for the knighthood.

As an English surname, it is first found in Hertfordshire, where they held a family seat long before the Norman Invasion of 1066 A.D.

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