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![Show Contents]() Blanes Surname History
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The Boernician clans of the Scottish-English border region were home to the ancestors of the Blanes family. Their name is derived from the Gaelic personal name Bleen, which means yellow. It was also the name of an early Celtic saint. Early Origins of the Blanes familyThe surname Blanes was first found in Ayrshire (Gaelic: Siorrachd Inbhir Àir), formerly a county in the southwestern Strathclyde region of Scotland, that today makes up the Council Areas of South, East, and North Ayrshire, where they held a family seat from very ancient times, some say well before the Norman Conquest and the arrival of Duke William at Hastings in 1066 A.D. Early History of the Blanes familyThis web page shows only a small excerpt of our Blanes research. Another 104 words (7 lines of text) covering the years 1561, 1660, 1674 and 1890 are included under the topic Early Blanes History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. Blanes Spelling VariationsSpelling variations occur frequently in Scottish names that date from the medieval era. They result from a general lack of grammatical rules and the tendency to spell names according to sound. Blanes has been spelled Blain, Blane, Blaine, Blaines, Blahan and others. Early Notables of the Blanes familyMore information is included under the topic Early Blanes Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. Blanes RankingIn France, the name Blanes is the 9,574th most popular surname with an estimated 500 - 1,000 people with that name. 1  Migration of the Blanes family to Ireland
Some of the Blanes family moved to Ireland, but this topic is not covered in this excerpt.
Another 60 words (4 lines of text) about their life in Ireland is included in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
| Blanes migration to the United States | + |
In the 20th century, the ancestors of many of those Boernician-Scottish people still populate North America. They distributed themselves on either side of the border at the time of the War of Independence. United Empire Loyalists went north to Canada and those who wanted a new nation stayed south. Both groups went on to found great nations. Some of the first North American settlers with Blanes name or one of its variants:
Blanes Settlers in United States in the 19th Century- Joseph Blanes, aged 38, who landed in New Orleans, La in 1841 2
- Monserrate Blanes, who arrived in Puerto Rico in 1879 2
- Francisco Blanes, aged 21, who landed in Puerto Rica in 1879 2
| Contemporary Notables of the name Blanes (post 1700) | + |
- Hector Gonzales Blanes, American Republican politician, Delegate to Republican National Convention from Puerto Rico, 1948, 1952 3
- Camilo Blanes Cortés (1946-2019), known professionally as Camilo Sesto, was a Spanish singer
- http://www.journaldesfemmes.com/nom-de-famille/nom/
- 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, December 1) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html
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Blanes migration to the United States 
