The name Carmain came to England with the ancestors of the Carmain family in the Norman Conquest in 1066. The surname Carmain is for a person who was known as the carman, or one who rented or let out vehicles. Often carmen were known as hostilers.
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Early Origins of the Carmain family
The surname Carmain was first found in Cumberland in the lands of Carman where they held a family seat from very ancient times before 1100 A.D.
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Early History of the Carmain family
This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Carmain research. Another 158 words (11 lines of text) covering the years 1066, 1086 and 1300 are included under the topic Early Carmain History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
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Carmain Spelling Variations
Anglo-Norman names are characterized by a multitude of spelling variations. When the Normans became the ruling people of England in the 11th century, they introduced a new language into a society where the main languages of Old and later Middle English had no definite spelling rules. These languages were more often spoken than written, so they blended freely with one another. Contributing to this mixing of tongues was the fact that medieval scribes spelled words according to sound, ensuring that a person's name would appear differently in nearly every document in which it was recorded. The name has been spelled Carman, Carmen, Carmine, Carmyn and others.
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Early Notables of the Carmain family
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Migration of the Carmain family
For many English families, the political and religious disarray that plagued their homeland made the frontiers of the New World an attractive prospect. Thousands migrated, aboard cramped disease-ridden ships. They arrived sick, poor, and hungry, but were welcomed in many cases with far greater opportunity than at home in England. Many of these hardy settlers went on to make important contributions to the emerging nations in which they landed. Among early immigrants bearing the name Carmain or a variant listed above were: Henry Carman aged 23; who settled in Virginia in 1620; the same year that the "Mayflower" arrived to the north in Massachusetts; John Carman settled in Boston Massachusetts in 1621 the year following the ".
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