Name origin: MARTIN, MARTYN, MARSDEN This name may be derived from the Latin martuis, warlike; from Mars, the God of War. In the Gaelic, mor is the great, and duin, a man; morduin a chief, a warrrior. The first of the name on record in England was Martin of Tours, who made conquest of Cemmes or Kemeys in County Pembroke, 1077. The roll of Battle Abbey the name of Le Sire de. S. Martin. The seat of the family was a Somersetshire, England.
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