Baughn History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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Early Origins of the Baughn family

Early History of the Baughn family

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Baughn research. Another 125 words (9 lines of text) covering the years 1455, 1487, 1510 and 1600 are included under the topic Early Baughn History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Baughn Spelling Variations

Sound was what guided spelling in the essentially pre-literate Middle Ages, so one person's name was often recorded under several variations during a single lifetime. Also, before the advent of the printing press and the first dictionaries, the English language was not standardized. Therefore, spelling variations were common, even among the names of the most literate people. Known variations of the Baughn family name include Bawn, Bawne, Baun, Baughn, Baughan and others.

Early Notables of the Baughn family

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Baughn Ranking

In the United States, the name Baughn is the 15,587^th most popular surname with an estimated 2,487 people with that name. 1

Migration of the Baughn family

For political, religious, and economic reasons, thousands of English families boarded ships for Ireland, Canada, the America colonies, and many of smaller tropical colonies in the hope of finding better lives abroad. Although the passage on the cramped, dank ships caused many to arrive in the New World diseased and starving, those families that survived the trip often went on to make valuable contributions to those new societies to which they arrived. Early immigrants bearing the Baughn surname or a spelling variation of the name include: Mary Bawn, who settled in Annapolis, MD in 1725; Henry Baun, who was naturalized in Pennsylvania in 1762; and John Bawn, who arrived in Philadelphia in 1854..