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Origin of Ogle, Meaning of Ogle
Origin: Two brothers, Jahn and Joseph Vogel settled in Caldwell County, Texas in the early 1850's. They were from Prussia.
Surnames: Vogel, Vogle
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Origin of Ogle, Meaning of Ogle
Origin: Bogle is believed to be locational in origin or from the name of Ogilvie or Ogilvy from the Lands of Airlie (Scotland). The name was certainly known about Cathedral Lands, Glasgow in the 15th Century and is believed to have been there many centuries prior to this. One Bogle ancestor states (1790's) that the first Bogle came from the Lands of Airlie and settled on lands of Glasgow. This was alleged to have been some 400 years prior to the above year. This information was taken from a document written by him which contained a family tree of his family. He also claimed that the family of Bogle eminated from a Bogle who was the Laird of Hutchiston/Hutcheson, Glasgow and all members of the family name are descendants of this particular person and also that it was one of the original names of Glasgow along with the Bairds and the Bells. One researcher records that the name may have derived from a place in or around Glasgow called Bougilleshalle. There is no further information as to the location of this place unless it was a coloqual name for Bogles Hole in Glasgow?
Surnames: Bogle
Submitted by: M Bogle |
Origin of Ogle, Meaning of Ogle
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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