The Marshall Surname
- Meaning
- horse servant, then officer
- Type
- Occupational
- Root
- Old French mareschal
- Chiefly
- Throughout England and Scotland
The word began as a servant who looked after horses and rose steeply: by the twelfth century a Marshal was a great officer of state. Both the humble and the grand sense contributed surnames.
The rise of the word is unusual. Most occupational terms went the other way.
Bestow the name a title it never had
An honorific Lord or Lady certificate in the Marshall name, hand-finished and sealed, with a square metre of Scottish woodland dedicated alongside it. A novelty, magnificently done — and a good deal more fun than a family tree.
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