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- The surname is found, in England, originally in those areas in which there were deposits of iron and thus an iron producing industry.
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www.fsgbooks.com. Farrar, Straus and Giroux (FSG) is an American book publishing company, founded in 1946 by Roger Williams Straus Jr. and John C. Farrar. [3] FSG is known for publishing literary books, and its authors have won numerous awards, including Pulitzer Prizes, National Book Awards, and Nobel Prizes.
Coat of arms and crest for William Farrar's father, John Farrar of Croxton and London, esquire. There is an apparent symbiotic relationship between the surname and armorial bearings issued to various houses of Farrar/Farrer/Ferrar, all of which have, on a bend, three horseshoes and some have a horseshoe on the crest.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux was founded in 1946. Farrar, Straus and Giroux authors have won extraordinary acclaim over the years, including numerous National Book Awards, Pulitzer Prizes, and twenty-one Nobel Prizes in Literature.
The meaning of Farrar. English (northern): occupational name for a blacksmith or worker in iron. From Middle English fer(r)o(u)r, fer(r)er, fa(r)ro(u)r ‘ironworker, blacksmith’ (Old French ferreor, from medieval Latin ferrator, an agent derivative of ferrare ‘to shoe horses’, from ferrum ‘iron’, in medieval Latin ‘horseshoe’).
The Farrar family name was found in the USA, the UK, Canada, and Scotland between 1840 and 1920. The most Farrar families were found in USA in 1880. In 1840 there were 39 Farrar families living in New Hampshire.
Headquarters: New York City. Areas Of Involvement: history of publishing. book. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, publishing company in New York City noted for its literary excellence. It was founded in 1946 by John Farrar and Roger Straus as Farrar, Straus & Co.
The surname Farrar was first found in the West Riding of Yorkshire at Wortley, a chapelry, in the parish of St. Peter, liberty of the borough of Leeds. "This place, in the Domesday Survey styled Wyrteley, formerly belonged to the Farrars, of Halifax, from whom the manor was purchased in 1766 by the family of the present owner."
