Abadia History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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Spain

Abadia is an occupational surname for a person who was employed in an Abbot. "Abad" comes from the latin "abbas" and this from the Syrian "abba" meaning "padre" or father. This was the title given to those who had monasteries. 1

This noble surname that can be traced back to medieval Spain. While the patronymic and metronymic surnames, which are derived from the name of the father and mother respectively, are the most common form of a hereditary surname in Spain, occupational surnames also emerged during the late Middle Ages. Many people, such as the Abadia family, adopted the name of their occupation as their surname. However, an occupational name did not become a hereditary surname until the office or type of employment became hereditary. The surname Abadia was an occupational name for a person who worked under the supervision of monks in an Abbot.

Early Origins of the Abadia family

The surname Abadia was first found in the Basque region of northern Spain. Abadía, named after the town's proximity to an abandoned abbey in the next town, is a small municipality found in the province of Cáceres. The surname Abadia is borne by a noble and very ancient lineage of Vizcaya (Basque Country), in the northern part of Spain. The ancestral seat of this family was located in the Gordejuela Valley.

Of note was Juan de la Abadía el Viejo (fl. 1470-1498), a Spanish painter in the gothic Spanish-Flemish style.

Early History of the Abadia family

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Abadia Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Abad, Abbad, Abade, Abat, Abades, Abadal, Abadía, Abadia, de Abadía, de Abadia, de la Abadía, de la Abadia and many more.

Early Notables of the Abadia family

Prominent among bearers of the family name at this time was

Manuel Abad y Queipo (1751-1825), a Spanish Roman Catholic Bishop of Michoacán in the Viceroyalty of New Spain at the time of the Mexican War of Independence. Mexican poet Diego José Abadiano was of n...

Abadia migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Abadia Settlers in United States in the 19th Century

María del Rosario Abadía, who sailed to Puerto Rico in 1826
Maria DelRosario Abadia, who landed in Puerto Rico in 1826 2
Antonio Abadía, who arrived in San Francisco in 1851
Antonio Abadia, who arrived in San Francisco, California in 1851 2

Citations +

Woods, Richard Donovan, Spanish Surnames In The Southwestern United States G. K. Hall, 1978. Digital
Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)