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Where did the Scottish Tait family come from? What is the Scottish Tait family crest and coat of arms? When did the Tait family first arrive in the United States? Where did the various branches of the family go? What is the Tait family history?
An ancient Scottish tribe called the Boernicians were the ancestors of the first people to use the surname Tait. It is a name for a a 11th century Scandinavian personal name which means glad, cheerful.
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- First settlers to North America
- Notable contemporary bearers of the name
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Spelling rules only evolved in the last few centuries with the invention of the printing press and the first dictionaries. Spelling variations are extremely common in names from before that period. Tait has been spelled Tait, Tate, Tayte, Taite and others.First found in Berwickshire, where they held a family seat from early times. There are several recorded instances of payments to a John Tayt, clerk of the hospital of Montrose, between 1362-70. Alexander Tayt was burgess of Edinburgh in 1381.
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Our PDF Extended History includes the early history!
This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Tait research. Another 184 words(13 lines of text) covering the years 1100, 1381, 1424, 1432, 1490, 1492, 1531, 1567, and 1597 are included under the topic Early Tait History in all our PDF Extended History products.
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Our PDF Extended History includes the Life In Ireland!
Some of the Tait family moved to Ireland, but this topic is not covered in this excerpt. Another 216 words(15 lines of text) about their life in Ireland is included in all our PDF Extended History products.
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After making their great crossing, many Boernician-Scottish families settled along the east coast of North America. When the War of Independence broke out, United Empire Loyalists moved north to Canada while the rest stayed to fight. The ancestors of many of these Scots still populate the continent. This century, through Clan societies and other Scottish organizations, they began to rediscover their collective national heritage. Analysis of immigration records indicates that some of the first North American immigrants bore the name Tait or a variant listed above:
Tait Settlers in the United States in the 17th Century
- Magnus Tait, who settled in East New Jersey in 1685
- Patrick Tait, who settled in East New Jersey in 1685
Tait Settlers in the United States in the 18th Century
- David Tait, who arrived in Florida in 1769
- James Tait, who arrived in Boston in 1774
- Elizabeth Tait, who came to Savannah, GA in 1775
- David Tait, aged 7, arrived in Savanna(h), Ga in 1775
Tait Settlers in the United States in the 19th Century
- Jas Tait, aged 37, landed in South Carolina in 1812
- James Tait, who landed in Charleston, SC in 1813
- William Tait, who landed in Allegany (Allegheny) County, Pa in 1818
- James Tait, who settled in Baltimore Maryland with his son in 1820
- Robert Tait, who arrived in New York in 1838
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- Archibald Campbell Tait (1811-1882), British (Scottish born) churchman, who became the Archbishop of Canterbury
- Peter Guthrie Tait (1831-1901), Scottish physicist and mathematician, professor of natural philosophy at Edinburgh University
- Thomas Smith Tait (1882-1952), Scottish architect
- William Tait (1792-1864), Scottish publisher
- Lieutenant James Edward Tait (1886-1918), Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross during the First World War
- Sir Angus Tait (b. 1919), New Zealand electronics innovator and businessman
- Blyth Tait (b. 1961), New Zealand equestrian, who has represented New Zealand at four Olympics (1992-2000)
- Sir. Peter L. Tait (1915-1996), Former New Zealand National Party Member of Parliment, Napier mayor, small businessman and opponent of New Zealand's Homoxesual Law Reform Act
- Group Captain James Brian Tait DSO and three bars, DFC and bar (1916-2007), British officer in the Royal Air Force during and after World War II
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- Leyburn, James Graham. The Scotch-Irish A Social History. Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1962. Print. (ISBN 0807842591).
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