SAUNDERS

SAUNDERS. L One of the derivatives of Alexander. 2. The family of this name in CO. Wicklow, pretend that their ancestor came into England about the year 1270, and that he sprang " from Robert, Lordof lunspruck, who was second brother of Eodolph, Count of ITapsburgh, and subsequently Emperor." The founder of the family in Ireland was a follower of Cromwell. B.L.G.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.