Egleston History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

Origins Available:
England
Ireland

This surname is derived from a geographical locality as in 'of Egleton,' a chapelry in the parish of Oakham, Rutland and a township in the parish of Bishops Frome, Herefordshire. 1 2 3

The Leicestershire local dates back to 1218, when it was known as Egoluestun. 4

Egglestone Abbey is a former Premonstratensian Abbey on the southern Yorkshire bank of the River Tees, now in ruins.

Early Origins of the Egleston family

The surname Egleston was first found in Leicestershire where Robert de Egelton was listed as a Freeman in 1225. Simon de Egilton was listed in the Hundredorum Rolls for Huntingdonshire in 1255 as later in Cornwall, Roger de Egilton was listed there in 1297. 5

Another source notes that in Rutland, the Hundredorum Rolls of 1273 list Simon de Egilton as holding lands there at that time. 1

Thomas of Eccleston (fl. 1250), was a Franciscan monk who studied at Oxford, and entered the Franciscan order probably soon after its settlement in England. "His work, for which he was collecting materials for twenty-five years, is dedicated to Simon de Esseby; it gives a narrative of some thirty years of the settlement of the Franciscans in England, describing their work and their poverty with the vividness of an eye-witness. " 6

Early History of the Egleston family

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Egleston research. Another 195 words (14 lines of text) covering the years 1260, 1581, 1603, 1610, 1623, 1659, 1677, 1679, 1688, 1697, 1712, 1731, 1737 and 1743 are included under the topic Early Egleston History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Egleston Spelling Variations

Although the name, Egleston, appeared in many references, from time to time, the surname was shown with the spellings Eagleton, Eaglestone, Eglestone, Egglestone and many more.

Early Notables of the Egleston family

Notable amongst the family name during their early history was William Ecclestone or Egglestone (fl. 1610 - 1623), an English actor in English Renaissance theatre, a member of Shakespeare's company the King's Men.Thomas Eccleston (1659-1743), Jesuit, only son of Henry Eccleston, Esq., of Eccleston Hall, Lancashire, by Eleanor, daughter of Robert Blundell, Esq., of Ince Blundell, was born in 1659. "He was educated in the college of St. Omer, and afterwards continued his studies for two years (1677-1679) in the English College at Rome. During the wars in Ireland, after the revolution of 1688, he held a captain's commission...
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Migration of the Egleston family to Ireland

Some of the Egleston family moved to Ireland, but this topic is not covered in this excerpt. More information about their life in Ireland is included in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Egleston migration to the United States +

Gradually becoming disenchanted with life in Ireland many of these uprooted families sailed aboard the armada of sailing ships known as the "White Sails" which plied the stormy Atlantic. These overcrowded ships often arrived with only 60 to 70% of their original passenger list, many dying of cholera, typhoid, dysentery or small pox. In North America, some of the first immigrants who could be considered kinsmen of the Egleston family name Egleston, or who bore a variation of the surname were

Egleston Settlers in United States in the 17th Century

Richard Egleston, who landed in Virginia in 1637 7

Contemporary Notables of the name Egleston (post 1700) +

Thomas Egleston (1832-1900), American engineer, founder of Columbia University's School of Mines and helped the future Henrietta Egleston Hospital for Children
Brigadier-General Nathaniel Hillyer Egleston (1884-1981), American Commanding Officer 51st Cavalry Brigade (1933-1940) 8

Citations +

Bardsley, C.W, A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames: With Special American Instances. Wiltshire: Heraldry Today, 1901. Print. (ISBN 0-900455-44-6)
Lower, Mark Anthony, Patronymica Britannica, A Dictionary of Family Names of the United Kingdom. London: John Russel Smith, 1860. Print.
Barber, Henry, British Family Names London: Elliot Stock, 62 Paternoster Row, 1894. Print.
Mills, A.D., Dictionary of English Place-Names. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. Print. (ISBN 0-19-869156-4)
Reaney, P.H and R.M. Wilson, A Dictionary of English Surnames. London: Routledge, 1991. Print. (ISBN 0-415-05737-X)
Smith, George (ed), Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1885-1900. 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)
Generals of World War II. (Retrieved 2012, February 29) Nathaniel Egleston. Retrieved from http://generals.dk/general/Egleston/Nathaniel_Hillyer/USA.html