Le Patourel (with the variant Pasturel) is a surname found mainly on the island of Guernsey. It comes from the Anglo-Norman French appellation le pastorel ('the shepherd, simpleton'), which is in origin a diminutive of pastour ('shepherd'). At the 1881 census of the United Kingdom, 96 people in Great Britain bore the name; as of about 2016, 15 people bore the name in Great Britain and none in Ireland.The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, ed. by Patrick Hanks, Richard Coates, and Peter McClure, 4 vols (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), III, p. 1571 [s.v. Le Patourel]; .
People Notable people with the name include: Wallace Le Patourel (1916–1979), British soldier Jean Le Patourel (1915–2011), British archaeologist John Le Patourel (1909–1981), British historian Owen Le Patourel Franklin (1905–1979), English composer
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