Haha!
Admittedly it gets a bit tenuous a couple of hundred years back.
Not nobility, no - just a bunch of unimaginative Somerset farmers who didn't go very far (about 5 miles in 500 years, in fact), making tracing somewhat easier.
The frog insult may be correct: my surname derives either from the French or from a spelling mistake.
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teedyay, Wed 3 Jun 2009, 9:12,
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