| ![Show Contents]() Nead History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
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 England Early Origins of the Nead familyThe surname Nead was first found in Lincolnshire where they held a family seat as Lords of the Manor. The Saxon influence of English history diminished after the Battle of Hastings in 1066. The language of the courts was French for the next three centuries and the Norman ambience prevailed. But Saxon surnames survived and the family name was first referenced in the 12th century when held estates in that county. Early History of the Nead familyThis web page shows only a small excerpt of our Nead research. Another 114 words (8 lines of text) covering the years 1175, 1455 and 1487 are included under the topic Early Nead History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. Nead 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 Nead family name include Neame, Neame, Neem, Neeme, Name, Neme and others. Early Notables of the Nead familyMore information is included under the topic Early Nead Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
 Nead migration to the United States | + |
For political, religious, and economic reasons, thousands of English families boarded ships for Ireland, Canada, 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 Nead surname or a spelling variation of the name include:
Nead Settlers in United States in the 19th Century- Matthew Nead, aged 25, who landed in Missouri in 1840 1
| Contemporary Notables of the name Nead (post 1700) | + |
- Spencer Nead (b. 1977), former American NFL football fullback
- Benjamin Matthias Nead (1847-1923), American historian, author, newspaper editor, lawyer, and politician
- Peter Nead (1796-1877), American preacher in the German Baptist Brethren church
- 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)
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Nead migration to the United States 
