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Origins Available: Irish, Welsh

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

The Phillips surname in Ireland derives from several sources, but there was certainly a native Gaelic name which evolved into such names as MacPhilbin and MacPhillips.

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Spelling variations of this family name include: MacPhilbin, McPhilbin, Philbin, Philben, Phillips and others.

First found in Connacht, where historian O'Donovan, in the Annals of the Four Masters (1355) lists MacPhilbin as one of the chiefs of the district then known as Sil Anmachada in east Galway.


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This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Phillips research. Another 202 words(14 lines of text) covering the years 1585, 1635, 1786, 1787, and 1859 are included under the topic Early Phillips 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 Phillips Notables in all our PDF Extended History products.

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Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Phillips Settlers in the United States in the 17th Century


  • Elinor and Henry Phillips who settled in Virginia in 1623
  • George Phillips, who came to Salem, MA in 1630
  • Bartholmew Phillips, who landed in Maryland in 1637
  • Day Phillips, who landed in Virginia in 1648
  • Alice Phillips, who arrived in Maryland in 1648


Phillips Settlers in the United States in the 18th Century


  • Anne Phillips, who landed in Virginia in 1704
  • Ellinor Phillips, who arrived in Virginia in 1706
  • Daniel Phillips, who arrived in Virginia in 1713
  • Elizabeth Phillips, who landed in Carolina in 1724
  • Edmund Phillips, who arrived in Virginia in 1741

Phillips Settlers in the United States in the 19th Century


  • Bernard Phillips, who arrived in Long Island in 1815
  • Grace Phillips, who landed in New York, NY in 1817
  • Alexander Lewis Phillips, who landed in New York in 1822
  • Cecil Phillips, aged 3, arrived in Baltimore, Md in 1838
  • Abraham, Alexander, Ann, David, and George Phillips, and many others who arrived at Philadelphia between 1807 and 1840


Phillips Settlers in the United States in the 20th Century


  • George Phillips, who landed in Arkansas in 1906

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  • Corporal Ruben J. Phillips (1874-1936), American Marine awarded the Medal of Honor for bravery
  • Charles Franklin Phillips (1910-1998), American economist and author
  • William Daniel Phillips (b. 1948), American Nobel Prize winning physicist (1997)
  • Private George Phillips (1926-1945), American Marine awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor in 1945
  • Claire Phillips (1908-1960), American spy and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
  • John L. Phillips PH.D. (b. 1951), NASA Astronaut with over 203 days in space
  • Ralph Saul Phillips (1913-1998), American mathematician awarded the Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement in 1997
  • Nicholas John Phillips (1933-2009), English physicist, notable for the development of photochemical processing techniques for the color hologram
  • Mark Anthony Peter Phillips (b. 1948), British, married Princess Anne in 1973, divorced in 1992
  • Alban William Housego Phillips (1914-1975), New Zealand economist, originator and eponym of the Phillips curve

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  • Descendants of William and Elizabeth (Iser) Phillips of Columbiana County, Ohio By Rita Hineman Townsend.
  • Hatfield and Phillips Families of Eastern Kentucky and Southwestern Virginia by Harry Leon Sellards.
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  1. The Norman People and Their Existing Descendants in the British Dominions and the United States Of America. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1975. Print. (ISBN 0-8063-0636-X).
  2. MacLysaght, Edward. Irish Families Their Names, Arms and Origins 4th Edition. Dublin: Irish Academic, 1991. Print. (ISBN 0-7165-2364-7).
  3. Matthews, John. Matthews' American Armoury and Blue Book. London: John Matthews, 1911. Print.
  4. Fairbairn. Fairbain's book of Crests of the Families of Great Britain and Ireland, 4th Edition 2 volumes in one. Baltimore: Heraldic Book Company, 1968. Print.
  5. Zieber, Eugene. Heraldry in America. Philadelphia: Genealogical Publishing Co. Print.
  6. Sullivan, Sir Edward. The Book of Kells 3rd Edition. New York: Crescent Books, 1986. Print. (ISBN 0-517-61987-3).
  7. Fitzgerald, Thomas W. Ireland and Her People A Library of Irish Biography 5 Volumes. Chicago: Fitzgerald. Print.
  8. Somerset Fry, Peter and Fiona Somerset Fry. A History of Ireland. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1993. Print. (ISBN 1-56619-215-3).
  9. Bell, Robert. The Book of Ulster Surnames. Belfast: Blackstaff, 1988. Print. (ISBN 10-0856404160).
  10. Crozier, William Armstrong Edition. Crozier's General Armory A Registry of American Families Entitled to Coat Armor. New York: Fox, Duffield, 1904. Print.
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The Phillips Family Crest was acquired from the Houseofnames.com archives. The Phillips 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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