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Subject: What's with Avril?
Author: Greenery   (Authenticated as Greenery)
Date: June 26, 2008 at 4:48:20 PM
I saw on a name board that someone said it has "questionable legitimacy". I know it happens to be the French word for April but I always thought it was a form of Eoforhild like this site says, or is this Averill? To me, it's an English name. I have an Avril in my family tree going back 160 years but I would have to recheck its spelling (?) It appears it has lots of use in England over the last 200 years. Still, not "legit" then?

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