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CLICK ON ANY SURNAME Gain Garry Gist Grammer Hamburg Hare Hewitt Hunt Lloyd Lynch

GAIN
Origin: English
Coat of Arms: A red shield with a gold fess indented between seven gold crosses crosslet.
Surname History:
Spelling variations include: Engain, Gain, Gayn, Gaines, Ingain, Engham, Engaine and many more.
First found in Northumberland where they were anciently seated. During the time of the Norman Kings there were many feudal rebellions.
Some of the first settlers of this name or some of its variants were: Many settlers were recorded from the mid 17th century in the great migration from Europe. Migrants settled in the eastern seaboard from Newfoundland, to Maine, to Florida, and to the islands.
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GAIN
Origin: French
Coat of Arms: A silver shield bendy black.
Surname History:
Spelling variations include: Gainous, Gain, Gaincru, Genost, Genoud, Genoust, Genoux and many more.
First found in Ille de France, where the family goes back to the time during the period when it was the time of the house of Armagnac and its later overthrow at the close of the 15th century.
First landed in including many of the name who migrated to the New World from the mid 17th century onward.
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GARRY
Origin: Irish
Coat of Arms: A silver shield with a green lion rampant between four green trefoils and a green lizard in chief.
Crest: A fox's head with a snake in the mouth.
Surname History:
Spelling variations include: Garry, Garrihy, Hare, O'Heihir, MacGarry, and others.
First found in county of Leitrim. They were descended from Seairaigh.
Some of the first settlers of this name or some of its variants were: Henry Garry who settled in Virginia in 1635; Claud Garry settled with his wife in Virginia in 1714; Bernard, James, Maurice, Michael, Thomas Garry, all arrived in Philadelphia between 1840 and 186 and others.
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GIST
Origin: Welsh
Coat of Arms: Blue, with a gold chevron between three gold swans heads.
Crest: A swan's head.
Motto: Ferro non gladio
Surname History:
Spelling variations include: Guest, Guests, Jeste, and others.
First found in Worcester. The first recorded holders of the name were Benwoldus Guest and Richard Thomas Guest who held lands and manors in the county of Worcestershire in 1248.
Some of the first settlers of this name or some of its variants were: George Guest purchased land in Virginia in 1647. Anthony Guest made the voyage in 1663. Henry Guest, his wife Mary, and their son, Henry, made their home in Philadelphia in 1686. By 1852, the Guest family had travelled as far west as San Francisco. In Newfoundland, John Guest was a shopkeeper of St. John's in 1811.
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GRAMMER
Origin: German
Coat of Arms: A gold shield with a black ram's head.
Surname History:
Spelling variations include: Kramer, Kraemer, Kremer, Krammer, Kraemmer, Kraymer and many more.
First found in Bohemia and Austria, where they became more entrenched as one of the notable family names of the region.
Some of the first settlers of this name or some of its variants were: Andreas Kramer and Hans Kramer, who arrived in Germantown, Pennsylvania sometime between 1683 and 1709. They were followed by Anna Catharina Kramer and Francisca Kramer who came to Philadelphia in 1725. After them, Casper Kramer arrived in Philadelphia in 1732, Henrich Kramer in 1731, and Johann Balthasar in 1733. Many more Kramers came to this city throughout the mid 18th century. In the 1840s and 1850s, Kramers largely emigrated to Texas, among them: Bernhard Kramer in 1850, Carl Kramer in 1847, Christian Kramer in 1848, and Friedrich Kramer in 1847.
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HAMBURG
Origin: German
Coat of Arms: A silver shield with a demi-man holding a star.
Surname History:
Spelling variations include: Wachsmuth, Wassmuth, Wasmuth (northern Germany), Waxmann (northern Germany) and many more.
First found in Silesia and Bohemia, where they continued to be am important contributor to the life of Europe in the middle ages.
First landed in Frederick Wachsmuth, who came to Philadelphia in 1844; Vincent Wachsmuth came to the same city in 1828.
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HAMBURG
Origin: English
Coat of Arms: A red shield with a silver tower within an orle of gold crosses crosslet and gold drops.
Crest: A horse courant and a green mount.
Motto: Honestum utili prafer
Surname History:
Spelling variations include: Hambro, Hambrow, Hambury, Hamborough, Hamboro, and others.
First found in Oxfordshire, where the parish of Hanborough has existed since before 1086.
Some of the first settlers of this name or some of its variants were: Daniel Hanbury who sailed to Massachusetts in 1635, Peter Hanbury to Virginia in 1639, Peter Hambro, to Philadelphia, Pa. in 1750, Benjamin Hambury to Virginia in 1774, Judy Hambury to Quebec in 1848, Catherine Hambury (or Hanbury) to Quebec in 1849 and Patrick Handbury to Philadelphia in 1877.
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HARE
Origin: Scottish
Coat of Arms: Red with two gold horizontal bars.
Crest: A silver lion.
Surname History:
Spelling variations include: Hare, Hair, Hehir, O'Hare, and others.
First found in in Ayrshire where they were seated from very ancient times, some say well before the Norman Conquest and the arrival of Duke William at Hastings in 1066 A.
Some of the first settlers of this name or some of its variants were: James Haire settled in Virginia in 1642; Christopher Hair arrived in Philadelphia Pa. in 1753; John Hare arrived in the Barbados with his wife and servants in 1679; James and Susan Hare and others.
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HARE
Origin: German
Coat of Arms: A blue shield with a gold fess between three gold fleurs de lis.
Surname History:
Spelling variations include: Haar, Haaren, Har, Härd, Harder, Hardes, Hare, Haren and many more.
First found in Germany, where they emerged as a notable family name early in the Middle Ages.
Some of the first settlers of this name or some of its variants were: settlers who travelled to the New World and established themselves along the eastern seaboard of the United States, particularly in Pennsylvania, and in Canada in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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HARE
Origin: English / Irish
Surname History:
The names Hare and O'Hare in Ireland are derived from the native Gaelic O'hIr and O'hEir Septs that were located in County Armagh in the North of the country. The name is also of immigrant origin having been brought to the country by settlers who arrived from England especially during the seventeenth century.
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HEWITT
Origin: English
Coat of Arms: Three silver owls on a red shield.
Crest: An owl standing on the stump of a tree.
Motto: Ne te quaesiveris extra
Surname History:
Spelling variations include: Hewitt, Hewett, Hewatt, Hewet, Hewit, Hewat, and others.
First found in in Dorset where they were seated from very early times and were granted lands by Duke William of Normandy, their liege Lord, for their distinguished assistance at the Battle of Hastings in 1066 AD.
Some of the first settlers of this name or some of its variants were: Ephraim Hewett settled in New England in 1639; Francis Hewett settled in Virginia in 1652; William Hewett arrived in the Barbados in 1668; Richard Hewitt settled in Virginia in 1 and others.
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HEWITT
Origin: Irish
Surname History:
The name Hewitt in Ireland is usually of Anglo origin having been brought to the country by settlers who arrived into Ulster, especially in the seventeenth century. The name also existed as a variant of the name Hugh, (Huighead in Gaelic) as early as the thirteenth century, particularly in Munster Province.
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HUNT
Origin: English
Coat of Arms: Blue on a bend between two water carriers, three red leopards faces.
Crest: A Halbert.
Surname History:
Spelling variations include: Hunt, Feighney, Feighty, Fey, and others.
First found in in Shropshire where they were seated from very ancient times, some say well before the Norman Conquest and the arrival of Duke William at Hastings in 1066 AD.
Some of the first settlers of this name or some of its variants were: Alice Hunt settled in Virginia in 1654; Edward Hunt settled in Virginia in 1655; James Hunt settled in Virginia in 1636; John Hunt settled in Virginia in 1622 and others.
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HUNT
Origin: Irish
Surname History:
The name Hunt in Ireland is derived from the native Gaelic O'Fiachna Sept that was located in County Roscommon. This Sept name was also anglicized to both Feighney and Feheny. The name was also brought to Ulster Province by settlers who arrived from England, especially during the seventeenth century.
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LLOYD
Origin: Welsh
Coat of Arms: Three silver scaling ladders, and a silver arrow head, all on a black shield, and a red stripe at the top on which there is a silver castle.
Crest: A demi lion rampant supporting in the paws an arrow.
Motto: Heb dduw heb ddim a duw a digon
Surname History:
Spelling variations include: Lloyd, Llwyd, Lloid, Loyd, Loid, Lwyd, and others.
First found in in Montgomeryshire where they had been seated from very ancient times.
Some of the first settlers of this name or some of its variants were: David Lloyd who settled in Virginia in 1635; followed by James in 1654; Thomas Lloyd settled in Jamaica with his three sons, Mordecai, John, and Thomas, and moved to Philadelphia in 1666; Ambrose Lloyd settled in Virginia in 1670; Daniell Lloyd settled in Jamaica in 1685; David Lloid settled in Virginia in 1670; followed by John and Thomas Lloid in 1670; the family also and others.
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LYNCH
Origin: Irish
Coat of Arms: Blue with a gold chevron between three gold three leafed clovers.
Crest: A blue Lynx.
Surname History:
Spelling variations include: Lynch, Linch, O'Lynch, and others.
First found in in county Galway where they were granted lands by Strongbow after the English Norman invasion of Ireland in 1172.
Some of the first settlers of this name or some of its variants were: Francis Lynch settled in Georgia in 1733; Jeremiah Lynch settled in Virginia in 1638; Patrick Lynch settled at Prescot Ontario in 1825 with his wife and seven children; and others.
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The name Lynch in Ireland is derived from the native Gaelic Sept O'Loinsigh Sept which was based in the Province of Connaught and was one of the 'Tribes of Galway'. Some descendants will derive from the Norman de Lench family who adopted Lynch as their name also. the majority of descendants can still be found in the Galway area.
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