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Where did the English Acord family come from? What is the English Acord family crest and coat of arms? When did the Acord family first arrive in the United States? Where did the various branches of the family go? What is the Acord family history?
The ancient Anglo-Saxon surname Acord came from the Old French personal names Achart and Aquart.
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- Noteworthy bearers from the 1500-1600s
- First settlers to North America
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Sound 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 Acord family name include Hatchard, Hachard, Atchard, Achard and others.First found in Lincolnshire, where they held a family seat from very early times.
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This is a small excerpt from our full listing of settlers for the name Acord. Our PDF Extended History provide the complete listing from our dbase of over 500,000 settlers!
For political, religious, and economic reasons, thousands of English families boarded ships for Ireland, the Canadas, 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 Acord surname or a spelling variation of the name include:
Acord Settlers in the United States in the 18th Century
- Andreas Lawrence Acord, who landed in Pennsylvania in 1753
- Andreas Lowrance Acord, who landed in Pennsylvania in 1753
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- Bullock, L.G. Historical Map of England and Wales. Edinburgh: Bartholomew and Son, 1971. Print.
- Leeson, Francis L. Dictionary of British Peerages. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1986. Print. (ISBN 0-8063-1121-5).
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The Acord Family Crest was acquired from the Houseofnames.com archives. The Acord 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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