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![Show Contents]() Angelica History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
From the historical and fascinating Italian region of Venice emerged a multitude of noble families, including the distinguished Angelica family. People in this region were originally known by only a single name, but it became necessary for people to adopt a second name to identify themselves as populations grew and travel became more frequent. The process of adopting fixed hereditary surnames began in Italy in the 10th and 11th centuries. Angelica is thought to have originally been a nickname for the first bearer of this surname. As a nickname, Angelica most likely described a person who was "angelic," or perhaps a person who acted as some kind of religious messenger. Early Origins of the Angelica familyThe surname Angelica was first found in Treviso. anciently Tarvisium, a town in Venetia, capital of the province of Treviso. The cathedral of San Pietro is notable and dates back to 1141. It is classical style with seven domes with works by many notable painters and sculptors. The Piazza dei Signori has many palaces. In the 6th centaur this town was a seat of a Lombard duke. Charlemagne held it. Later it was Venetian. In those ancient times only persons of rank, the podesta, clergy, city officials, army officers, artists, landowners were entered into the records. To be recorded at this time, at the beginning of recorded history, was of itself a great distinction and indicative of noble ancestry. Early History of the Angelica familyThis web page shows only a small excerpt of our Angelica research. Another 147 words (10 lines of text) covering the years 1100, 1488, 1559, 1652 and 1764 are included under the topic Early Angelica History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. Angelica Spelling VariationsItalian surnames come in far more variations than the names of most other nationalities. Regional traditions and dialects are a decisive factor in this characteristic. For example, northern names tend to end in "o", while southern in "i". Also important, but not unique to Italy, was the fact that before dictionaries and the printing press most scribes simply spelled words according to their sounds. The predictable result was an enormous number of spelling variations. The recorded spellings of Angelica include Angeli, Angelo, Angela, Angioli, Angiolo, Angiola, Agnoli, Agnolo, Agnola, D'Angeli, D'Angelo, D'Angiolo, Angelelli, Angelillo, Angiolillo, Agnorelli, Agnoletti, Angeletti, Angelino, Angiolini, Angolini, Angelucci, Agnolucci, Angelotti, Agnelutto, Agnelut, Angelantoni and many more. Early Notables of the Angelica familyAnother 29 words (2 lines of text) are included under the topic Early Angelica Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. Migration of the Angelica familyA search of the immigration and passenger lists has shown a number of people bearing the name Angelica: Cristino Dangelis, who arrived in New York city from Naples on March 22; 1893 aboard the SS Alesia, Josef Angeli, who arrived in Baltimore in 1913; as well as Americo Angeli, who was naturalized in Illinois in 1902.
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- Victoria Angelica Espinel (b. 1968), American President and Chief Executive of the software industry trade group BSA (The Software Alliance)
- Angelica Kauffmann (1741-1807), Swiss-Austrian painter, born at Coire, the capital of the Grisons, 30 Oct. 1741, and baptised by the names of Maria Anna Angelica, the only daughter of Johann Josef Kauffmann, a native of Schwarzenberg, near Bregenz 1
- Angelica Catalani (1780-1849), Italian opera singer
- Angelica Le Gru Perotti (1719-1776), Italian painter of the Rococo
- Angelica Vanessa Garnett (b. 1918), English author and painter
- Angelica Flores, American Republican politician, Delegate to Republican National Convention from Texas, 2008, 2012 2
- Wikisource contributors. "Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900." Wikisource . Wikisource , 4 Jun. 2018. Web. 26 October 2020
- The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2015, November 17) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html
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