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![Show Contents]() Bennick Surname History
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 England
The name Bennick is of Anglo-Saxon origin and came from when a family lived in the township and parish of Bonwick, in Yorkshire. Early Origins of the Bennick familyThe surname Bennick was first found in Yorkshire, at Bonwick. "Bonwick, or Bovingwick, is not named in the Domesday Book, being probably included, with Skipsea and other parts of the parish, in the 'adjacent lands' of the manor of Cleton. The place consists of two farms, respectively designated High and Low Bonwick." 1 Early History of the Bennick familyThis web page shows only a small excerpt of our Bennick research. Another 72 words (5 lines of text) covering the years 1637, 1652, 1692, 1714 and 1722 are included under the topic Early Bennick History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. Bennick Spelling VariationsSound 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 Bennick family name include Bonwick, Bonnick and others. Early Notables of the Bennick familyNotables of the family at this time include Ambrose Bonwicke the Elder (1652-1722), English schoolmaster and nonjuror, son of the Rev. John Bonwicke, B.D., rector of East Horsley, Surrey. "He was born on 29 April 1652, and entered the Merchant...
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 Bennick migration to the United States | + |
For political, religious, and economic reasons, thousands of English families boarded ships for Ireland, the Canadas, 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 Bennick surname or a spelling variation of the name include :
Bennick Settlers in United States in the 19th Century- B Bennick, who arrived in Iowa in 1872 2
- D H Bennick, who arrived in Iowa in 1877 2
| Contemporary Notables of the name Bennick (post 1700) | + |
- Frances Bennick, American Democratic Party politician, Delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1980 3
- Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England. Institute of Historical Research, 1848, Print.
- 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)
- The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2015, October 14) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html
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Bennick migration to the United States 
