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Origin of Lay, Meaning of Lay
Origin: My grandfather's father came from Hungary in the 1900's with the name 'Szalay.' To ease pronunciation, it was legally changed to 'Sally
Surnames: Sally, Szalay
Submitted by: Christina McConnaughey |
Origin of Lay, Meaning of Lay
Origin: England, near London. Great,Great,Great,Great Grandfather born John Layton Sr. 1776, emigrated to America in 1801. Brothers Jacob and Silas. All sons of Silas Layton of England. Silas died on His farm in 1839 at the age of 93.
Surnames: Layton
Submitted by: John Bennett |
Origin of Lay, Meaning of Lay
Origin: First found in Normandy, France, in the region of Tremblay before Norman conquest. First settlers of this name Corney Trembley in 1764 and Jacques Tremblay settled in Quebec about 1756.
Surnames: Trembley, Tremblay, Tremblai
Submitted by: Tanya hanna |
Origin of Lay, Meaning of Lay
Origin: Researching the name Clay, have origins in N.Yorks UK back to 1700, a strong data base of a close Knit family, all Ag.workers. Working on farms around Marton, at the time when Capt. Cook's family lived there.
Surnames: Clay
Submitted by: Malcolm Clay Finkill |
Origin of Lay, Meaning of Lay
Origin: We have just started researching this part of our history. We have so far Christina Blaydes b.12-28-52 in Memphis,TN. Her parents are Elmer Curtis Blaydes b.10-29-23 d.2-8-00 in Memphis,TN and Joy Marie Follis b.10-3-30 d.2-28-89 in Memphis. If anyone has more info please contact me.
Surnames: Blaydes
Submitted by: Kenya Sturdivant Sexton |
Origin of Lay, Meaning of Lay
Origin: Researching HOWARTH family of Pemberton (Wigan), Lancashire, England. Family members are: Mary b. Abt. 1828 Alice J. b. Abt. 1858 Mary A. b. Abt. 1860 Martha b. Abt. 1863 Hannah b. Abt. 1867 Also researching CLAYTON of the same area.
Surnames: CLAYTON
Submitted by: Mike McCammon |
Origin of Lay, Meaning of Lay
Origin: William T. Layton worked for the railroad was married to Lydia Skaggs and raised his family in Ansted, West Virginia
Surnames: Layton
Submitted by: Dotty |
Origin of Lay, Meaning of Lay
Origin: Any information of anyone with this name.
Surnames: Haillay
Submitted by: Walter_Jakeman |
Origin of Lay, Meaning of Lay
Origin: Annie McLay born circa 1840 Scotland later married Norman McDougall lived in Ontario and Quappelle Valley Saskatchewan now, formerly Northwest Territories. Also homesteaded at Basswood,Manitoba 1882. Had 12 - 17 children among them Angus,Isabella,Christie,Hugh,Kate,Norman,Roderick some of whose descendents are now in Regina,Sask and Winnipeg,Manitoba.
Surnames: McLay
Submitted by: Louise Graham |
Origin of Lay, Meaning of Lay
Origin: Audet dit Lapointe
Surnames: Audet dit Lapointe, Lapointe, Tremblay, Hebert
Submitted by: Rachel Lapointe |
Origin of Lay, Meaning of Lay
Origin: The first Lee to set foot on American soil was Henry Leigh (or Lay). He was a settler in Jamestown. The Lee's stayed in Virginia, Robert E. Lee is an example. Some of the Lee's eventually moved to the Carolinas and Georgia. A branch of them moved to Helotes, Texas (suburb of San Antonio).
Surnames: Lee, Leigh, Lay
Submitted by: Lizzie |
Origin of Lay, Meaning of Lay
Origin: Columbia
Surnames: Olaya
Submitted by: Clara Ines |
Origin of Lay, Meaning of Lay
Origin: The name Ainlay probably means "landowner" - ain meaning "own" and lay meaning "land."
Surnames: Ainlay
Submitted by: Thomas Ainlay |
Origin of Lay, Meaning of Lay
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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