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MacAdams Family Crest
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Where did the Scottish MacAdams family come from? What is the Scottish MacAdams family crest and coat of arms? When did the MacAdams family first arrive in the United States? Where did the various branches of the family go? What is the MacAdams family history?

In ancient Scotland, the ancestors of the first people to use the name MacAdams were part of a tribe known as the Strathclyde Britons. The name is derived from the given name Adam, which is itself derived from the Latin name Adamus which means earth.

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Spelling variations of this family name include: MacAdam, MacAdams, McAdam, McAdams, MacCaw and others.

First found in Annandale, where they held a family seat at Kynemund and at Waterhead in the Stewartry of Kirkudbright.


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This web page shows only a small excerpt of our MacAdams research. Another 326 words(23 lines of text) covering the years 1189, 1329, 1460, 1728, 1792, and 1891 are included under the topic Early MacAdams History in all our PDF Extended History products.

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Another 36 words(3 lines of text) are included under the topic Early MacAdams Notables in all our PDF Extended History products.

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Some of the MacAdams family moved to Ireland, but this topic is not covered in this excerpt. Another 248 words(18 lines of text) about their life in Ireland is included in all our PDF Extended History products.

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Some of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: William Adam who wrote an Adam Genealogy which is now part of the American Library of Congress; many in the New world dropped the Mac or Mc from their name. John Adam landed in America in 1685.

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  • Roberta MacAdams (1880-1959), Canadian politician from Alberta


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  2. Weis, Frederick Lewis, Walter Lee Sheppard and David Faris. Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists Who Came to New England Between 1623 and 1650 7th Edition. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1992. Print. (ISBN 0806313676).
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  6. Shaw, William A. Knights of England A Complete Record from the Earliest Time to the Present Day of the Knights of all the Orders of Chivalry in England, Scotland, Ireland and Knights Bachelors 2 Volumes. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing. Print. (ISBN 080630443X).
  7. Skene, William Forbes Edition. Chronicles of the Picts, Chronicles of the Scots and Other Early Memorials of Scottish History. Edinburgh: H.M. General Register House, 1867. Print.
  8. Chadwick, Nora Kershaw and J.X.W.P Corcoran. The Celts. London: Penguin, 1970. Print. (ISBN 0140212116).
  9. Holt, J.C. Ed. Domesday Studies. Woodbridge: Boydell, 1987. Print. (ISBN 0-85115-477-8).
  10. Bain, Robert. The Clans and Tartans of Scotland. Glasgow & London: Collins, 1968. Print. (ISBN 000411117-6).
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The MacAdams Family Crest was acquired from the Houseofnames.com archives. The MacAdams Family Crest was drawn according to heraldic standards based on published blazons. We generally include the oldest published family crest once associated with each surname.

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