A rare surname in Scotland, and most probably of late introduction from south of the Border. The name is territorial probably from Vernon ("place of alders") in the arron-dissement of Evreux. There are, however, sixty-four places so named in France. Edward Vernon, surveyor at Drumlanrig, Dumfriesshire, 1742.

(Anglo-French-Celt.) belonging to Vernon (France) [the stem is that of Verney (q.v.): the suff. is either the diminutive -on (Latin -i-on-em), or else it represents, as in some other cases, Latin -i-an-um] de Vernon occurs on the mural list of “Compagnons de Guillaume à la Conquête de l’Angleterre en MLXVI" in Dives Church; and Vernoun figures in the so- called copies of the Roll of Battle Abbey.

William de Vernun.—Patent Rolls, A.D. 1218-19.

Vernon is a common French place- name, but the chief source of the A.-French surname is prob. Vernon, Eure, Normandy.

(French, English) One who came from Vernon (the alder grove), the name of several places in France.

William de Vernon was lord and owner of the town and district of Vernon sur Seine, in the arrondissement of Louviers in 1052. His eldest son, Richard, accompanied William the Conqueror to England in 1066, and was one of the seven barons created by the kinglet, Hugh Lupus, the Conqueror's nephew, in his county-palatine of Chester. A Walter de Vernon was also a tenant in chief in co. Bucks, at the time of the Domesday survey.

Local. From Vernon, a place in Normandy.

A Norman baronial name. William, Richard, Gervin, Ralph, de Vernon, Normandy 1180- 95 (Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniae). Roger was Baron of Vernon c. 1030, about which time his dau. Blithildis was married. She in 1082 granted to Trinity, Caen, the lands at Vernon given to her by her father Roger. The grant was made with consent of William, her nephew, then Lord of Vernon (Gall. Christ. xi. 70, Instr.). This William recovered Vernon (which had been granted to Count Guy of Burgundy); and from him descended the Barons of Vernon, who held sixty-one knights’ fees in barony; and of whom William de V. founded the Collegiate Church at Vernon in 1160 (Gall. Christ. xi. 583). William I. had several brothers who came to England 1066, viz., 1. Richard; 2. Walter of Cheshire 1086, d. s. p.; 3. Alured of Suffolk, living 1086. Richard held sixteen lordships in barony in Cheshire 1086, and is said to have been heir of his brother Walter. Hugh, his son, had Walter, father of Warin, father of Richard, barons of Shipbroke. The latter had: 1. Warin, ancestor of the Vernons, barons and earls of Shipbroke; 2. William, Chief Justice of Chester, ancestor of the Vernons of Haddon, and of the Lords Vernon.

From Vernon; a location name. in Normandy. Vernoun in Roll of Battell Abbey; in the Domesday Book, de Vernon.

Vernon: from Vernon in the arrondissement of Evreux. Richard and Walter appear in Domesday. Richard was one of the Barons of the palatinate of Hugh Lupus in Cheshire, and had a castle at Shipbrook on the Wever.