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Origin of Eley, Meaning of Eley
Origin: I was told by a george selley in england that the name selley in england is from devon and cornwall. he also says that the name originated from 2 brothers that were saddle makers and in french is pronounced salliea. spelled sellier or sellere meaning saddlemaker. so he says they came to uk with william the conqueror. there are other selley people from germany-no relation they are selle and add a y. george selleys job was govt. workers genealogy.
Surnames: Celly, Sealie, Sealy, Seeley, Seely, Selley, Zully
Submitted by: bill selley |
Origin of Eley, Meaning of Eley
Origin: The original family name was Fielding - it was changed during the immigration process to Feeley - because the immigration authorities couldn't understand my Irish forefather's brough and he evidently was unable to read. This as far as I know took place during the Potato Famine - Joseph Fielding emigrated from Belfast area of Ireland .
Surnames: Feeley, Fielding
Submitted by: Kate Sevigny |
Origin of Eley, Meaning of Eley
Origin: My grandfather George Thomas Tokeley, dropped the 2nd 'e' at sometime, since my father(sidney James) was born in 1915, we have been Tokely. Can anyone shed any light on this?
Surnames: tokeley
Submitted by: petertokely |
Origin of Eley, Meaning of Eley
Origin: I am looking for my family in Ireland and Scotland. I am traveling overseas soon. Also, I have nothing to do while my leg is in a cast.
Surnames: Patric ia Lynnerin Deeley
Submitted by: yozed |
Origin of Eley, Meaning of Eley
Origin: i need information on the parents and lineage before Robert Moseley I of virginia 1700-1734 when did his branch come to america?
Surnames: moseley
Submitted by: Ron Moseley |
Origin of Eley, Meaning of Eley
Origin: For three consecutive generations the Elys have been closely identified with the business and professional life of Westfield, Massachusetts; and for nine generations with that of New England. The family in America was founded by Nathaniel Ely, born in the year 1605, supposedly in Tenterden, County Kent, England, of an excellent old English family. The Ely family in England dates back to the hereditary surname epoch (1250-1450 A.D.), when second, or family names first began to come into general use. The name has two distinct derivations, as is proved by that peer of etymologists and orthographers, the late Charles Wareing Bardsley, honorary canon of Carlisle Cathedral and vicar of Ulverstone, in his monumental "A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames" (Second Edition). The same derivations are also given in Lower's "Patronymica Britannica." Surnames fall, roughly, into five separate classes of inception, by far the greatest class being that one known as baptismal surnames. Ely was originally spelled Elie, and was used as a fontal or Christen name. When, due to the growth in population and the resultant confusion from the repetitious use of identical fontal names, a second or distinguishing nomenclature became imperative, many assumed their father's given name as a surname. Hence, Robert, son of William, became Robert fil. William (fil being a contraction of the Latin filius, and meaning simply "son of"), the fil being dropped in the course of time and the name becoming Robert William's (possessive case meaning William's son Robert), and finally, Robert Williams. Hundreds of present-day surnames came about in this way. John, fil Elie, of County Lincoln, is mentioned in the Placita de Quo Warranto (temp. Edward I); and Reginald fil Elye, of County Lincoln and Gilbert Elye, of County Kent, both appear in the Hundred Rolls (1273, A. D.). The second derivation of this ancient surname falls into the class known as local surnames, that is, a man taking the name of the section in which he lived for purposes of differentiation. Ely is the name of the capital of the Fen district, and in the year 1227 Nicholas de Ely (the de being a French prefix meaning simply "of," and showing the French influence following the Norman Conquest of Saxon England in the year 1066 A. D.), was bailiff of Norwich. At a later date Alan de Ely was rector of Blickling, County Norfolk, and in the Hundred Rolls of that shire in the year 12,3, A. D., are found the names of Michael and John de Ely. of these two distinct derivations, the first is the one applicable to the family herein considered, for the reason that the largest branches of the Ely family in England were seated in counties Lincoln and Kent, and it is from Tenterden, in County Kent, that the progenitor of the family in the New World is traditionally believed to have come. The surname Ely, unlike the vast majority of English surnames, has undergone comparatively few orthographic changes, the ancient English archives furnishing us examples of but the following few forms: Elie, Elye, Eley, Eeley (very rare), and finally, Ely-the present and accepted spelling. Nathaniel Ely, the first to bear that ancient patronymic in America, set an example of civic service which his descendants have worthily upheld, and two of his lineal descendants-Henry Wilson Ely and his son, Joseph Buell Ely-have recognized this principle of life in their respective careers. Nathaniel Ely came from Old England to New England in the ship "Elizabeth" in the year 1634, settling first in what is now Cambridge, Massachusetts, then in Hartford, where his name is on the monument erected to the memory, of that town's pioneer settlers, and finally in Springfield, where he served as selectman for many terms.
Surnames: Ely, Elie, Elye, Eley, Eeley
Submitted by: DP |
Origin of Eley, Meaning of Eley
Origin: From my research I have found that the surname Wakeley translates to "Wet Field" as our people were originally farmers and field tenders.
Surnames: Wakeley, Wakely, Wakelee
Submitted by: Michelle Wakeley |
Origin of Eley, Meaning of Eley
Origin: Those bearing the name of Ruggles in the United States, nearly all are descended from the English Suffolk and. Essex family of that name, which family was seated in those counties in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
The only exceptions are believed to be those persons who trace their lineage back to an ancestor who came from France, and. who bore the name of Bugles. Alfred Ruggles of Hanover, Pennsylvania, who claimed origin from this stock, in 1791 spelled. his name with the double g, as have all of his descendants from that time.
This record will deal with the English family, which is now virtually transplanted to America, the branch extant in England bearing now an additional surname, hyphenated with that of Ruggles.
John Sydney Hawkins, son of Sir John Hawkins, wrote a life of George Ruggles, the famous scholar and dramatic author of the time of Ding James I, which was published in London in 1787. Ruggles had written a play in Latin, which had been performed before the king at Cambridge in 1614, and of this drama Hawkins had prepared a carefully edited edition, and bound it together with the biography of its author. In this volume is made the statement that the Essex and Suffolk family of Ruggles is a branch of the very ancient Staffordshire house of Ruggeley, or De Ruggeley; that this branch removed to Warwickshire, thence to Lincolnshire, and from there to Suffolk. He is of the opinion that the name is derived from the town of Ruggeley, or Rugeley, in Staffordshire, and that it was there that they were first settled.
It is well known that surnames were not in general use until after the Norman Conquest, and Camden says ("Remains," ed. 1674) that ,all names that have the Latin prefix, De, were borrowed from places.
The name, Ruggeley, is by Hawkins affirmed to be of Anglo-Saxon origin, and from two words signifying Rugged Land, which, as applied to a place, might very properly refer to the rude and. uncultivated state in which, at the time it was named, that town was believed to have been.
The very earliest trace of the family is to be found in Shaw's " Antiquities of Staffordshire," wherein we are told that one Robert de Ruggele lived. in the time of Henry III, or in the year 1220. Of this family Sir William Dugdale declares (" Antiquities of Warwickshire "): " They were gentlemen of very good note, for so early as the twenty-sixth year of the reign of King. Edward 1, viz., A. D. 1298, Z find William de Ruggele, de comitatu Staffordiae, recorded with an encomium for having performed faithful service to the king in his army then in Flanders; and in the tenth, thirteenth and fourteenth of Edward DI, mention is made of Simon de Ruggeley, who was then sheriff of the counties of Salop and Stafford," and in " Antiquities of Staffordshire " we learn that at this time Humphrey de Ruggeley was owner of Hawksbeard.
Nicholas Ruggeley, of Hawksbeard, Dugdale further informs us, was appointed to the Rangership of Sutton Chase, in Warwickshire, in the second year of Henry IV, and that he continued in that command until the tenth of Henry VI. About 1423 he purchased the manor of Claptham in Dunton (or Downton—afterwards called Downton-Ruggeley), in that county, and removed there; and in 1432 his name occurs among the knights and esquires who made oath for the observance of the articles concluded on, in the Parliament then held. We discover in Fuller's " Worthies of Leicestershire" that he was also sheriff of Warwick and Leicester in 1428.
From Warwickshire a branch of this family settled in Lincolnshire, at a place called Holton Holgate, and although the. immediate ancestor of the Essex and Suffolk families very soon removed to the latter county, descendants of the name remained in Holton Holgate as late as 1674.
It was in the early part of the sixteenth century that this family appeared in Suffolk, and Thomas Ruggles, of Sudbury, Suffolk, whose bears date June 21, 1547 (see "Burke's General Armory"), bore these:—
Arms—Argent, between three roses a chevron gales.
Crest—A tower or, with a beacon flaming at the top proper, and transpierced with four arrows in saltire, points downward, argent.
Motto—STRUGGLE.
which arms are identical with those of the Staffordshire family of Ruggeley. These bearings are also found. recorded in Berry's " Encyclopaedia of Heraldry," under the names both of Ruggeley and of Ruggles.
Thomas Ruggles, great-grandson of Thomas Ruggles, of Sudbury, came from Nasing, Essex, to Roxbury, Massachusetts, in 1637. His younger brother, John, had come out to New England, and settled in Roxbury two years before.
John Ruggles of Boston had preceded these, having come in the fleet with Governor Winthrop in 1630, as had Jeffrey Ruggles, who also settled in Boston. George Ruggles, of the same place, was there as early as 1632. He afterwards removed to Braintree, where his branch of the family resided for five generations. Samuel Ruggles also was in Boston at an early date, though the precise time cannot be determined.
John of Boston was a cousin of Thomas of Roxbury, and also of Jeffrey of Boston. The ancestry of George is not exactly known, nor that of Samuel, but they were undoubtedly near relatives of the others.
John and Jeffrey of Boston left no male descendants, and it is therefore believed that these four— Thomas and John of Roxbury, George of Boston and Braintree, and Samuel of Boston—were the ancestors of all in America having the family name today, and who are descended from the English family.
The family name has undergone considerable change in six hundred years: first De Ruggele, then successively De Ruggeley, Ruggeley, Ruggelay, Rugeley, Ruggleigh, Rogyll, Rogle, Rugle, Rugles, Ruggle, and lastly Ruggles. Nor is it in England alone that these variations in spelling are to be found, quite as many appearing in the early Roxbury and Boston records as in those of Suffolk, Essex and Stafford.
Surnames: De Ruggele, De Ruggeley, Ruggeley, Ruggelay, Rugeley, Ruggleigh, Rogyll, Rogle, Rugle, Rugles, Ruggle, Ruggles
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