Dictionary of Place-Names
by Charles STEVENS, unpublished.
DROUET, personal name. A diminutive of the Teutonic name DROGO, meaning a phantom; a son of CHARLEMAGNE was named DROGO; in ML. (Medieval Latin) this became DROCUS, in Old French: DREUS, DRU; in English DREW; in Jersey, DREW, DRIEU are surnames still recorded, and LE DRU appears 1299 to 1331. The name was popularized by the omnipotent Drogo de Baretin in the Middle Ages.

The Family Names of the Island of Newfoundland"

by E.R.Seary
 
 EXCERPT from the Newfoundland Book of Names

LEDREW, an anglicization of the surname of France and Jersey (Channel Islands),

Ledru - vigorous, lively, lady’s man.(Dauzat, Turk). Drew is also found in Jersey.

In Newfoundland:

Family traditions:, from Jersey (Channel Islands), settled at Cupids; later the family moved to Change Islands and Ship Cove (Botwood) (MUN Folklore).

Early instances: Mary La Dros, of Cupids, 1762 (CO 199.18); lye, of Brigus, 1780 (CO 199.18); George Le Drew, of Cupids, 1807 (DPHW 34); George Le(a)drow or Ledgrow, planter of Careless (now Kerley’s) Harbour, 1822 (DPHW 64); Maria LeDrowe, at Harbour Grace Parish, 1823 (Nf1d. Archives HGRC); Ledroe, on the Venus, in the seal fishery out of Port de Grave, 1838 (Neufoundlander 29 Mar 1838); Tobias LeDrow, of Change Islands, 1841 (DPHW 83); Moses Ledrew, of British Harbour (Trinity B.), 1854 (DPHW 64B); Isaac and William Ledroe, of Kelligrews, 1871 (Lovell); Isaac LeDrew, of St. John’s, 1871 (Lovell); Robert, of Ward’s Harbour (now Beaumont North), 1871 (Lovell); George, of Trinity (Trinity B.), 1871 (Lovell).

Modern status: Widespread, especially at Cupids, Change Islands, Botwood and St. John’s.

Place name: Ledrew Rock 49-30 55—43.