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Where did the Irish Agnew family come from? What is the Irish Agnew family crest and coat of arms? When did the Agnew family first arrive in the United States? Where did the various branches of the family go? What is the Agnew family history?
The Irish name Agnew comes from the Gaelic "ó Gnimh." The name was written O'Gnive, O'Gnimh, O'Gnyw in English, which, through pronunciation based on spellings became O'Gnew and eventually Agnew.
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Pronunciation, rather than spelling, guided scribes and church officials when recording names during the Middle Ages. This practice often resulted in one person's name being recorded under several different spellings. Numerous spelling variations of the surname Agnew are preserved in these old documents. The various spellings of the name that were found include Agnew, O'Gnive, O'Gnew, O'Gneeve and others.First found in Antrim, where they arrived as the families of Scottish mercenary soldiers in early times. Their lands were in Larne and also in northern Antrim.
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The 19th century saw a great wave of Irish families leaving Ireland for the distant shores of North America and Australia. These families often left their homeland hungry, penniless, and destitute do to the policies of England. Those Irish immigrants that survived the long sea passage initially settled on the eastern seaboard of the continent. Some, however, moved north to a then infant Canada as United Empire Loyalists after ironically serving with the English in the American War of Independence. Others that remained in America later joined the westward migration in search of land. The greatest influx of Irish immigrants, though, came to North America during the Great Potato Famine of the late 1840s. Thousands left Ireland at this time for North America, and those who arrived were immediately put to work building railroads, coal mines, bridges, and canals. In fact, the foundations of today's powerful nations of the United Sates and Canada were to a larger degree built by the Irish. Archival documents indicate that members of the Agnew family relocated to North American shores quite early:
Agnew Settlers in the United States in the 17th Century
- Andrew Agnew, who landed in Maryland in 1674
- Aud Agnew, who landed in Maryland in 1674
- Ninian Agnew, who landed in Maine in 1676
Agnew Settlers in the United States in the 18th Century
- Andrew Agnew, who settled in New England in 1718
- Alexander Agnew, who settled in New York in 1774
- Agnes Agnew, aged 19, landed in New York in 1774
- Alexander Agnew, aged 40, arrived in New York, NY in 1775
- Alexander Agnew, who was on record in New Castle, Delaware in 1789
Agnew Settlers in the United States in the 19th Century
- Deckey Agnew, who arrived in New York, NY in 1815
- Thomas Agnew, who arrived in Washington County, Pa in 1820
- John Agnew, who landed in Allegany (Allegheny) County, Pa in 1844
- Robert Agnew, who arrived in San Francisco, Cal in 1851
- William Agnew, who landed in Mississippi in 1854
Agnew Settlers in the United States in the 20th Century
- James Agnew, who arrived in Arkansas in 1902
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- David Hayes Agnew (1818-1892), American surgeon in attendance as operating surgeon when President Garfield was fatally wounded by the bullet of an assassin in 1881
- Robert Agnew (1899-1983), American film actor
- Charlie Agnew (1901-1978), American Jazz musician and band-leader
- Harold Melvin Agnew (b. 1921), American physicist and politician, member of New Mexico senate (1955-1961), and director of Los Alamos National Laboratory 1970-1979
- Sir James Wilson Agnew (1815-1901), Irish born, Premier of Tasmania
- Chloë Agnew (b. 1989), Irish singer, youngest member of the Celtic music group Celtic Woman
- Paul Agnew (b. 1964), Scottish Baroque singer
- Sir Peter Garnett Agnew (1900-1990), 1st Baronet Agnew of Clendry, co Wigtown, English Commander in the Royal Navy, and politician
- Roy Ewing Agnew (1893-1944), Australian composer and pianist
- Pinky Agnew (b. 1955), New Zealand actor, author, and social commentator
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- Woulfe, Rev. Patrick. Irish Names and Surnames Collected and Edited with Explanatory and Historical Notes. Kansas City: Genealogical Foundation, 1992. Print. (ISBN 0-940134-403).
- 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).
- Crozier, William Armstrong Edition. Crozier's General Armory A Registry of American Families Entitled to Coat Armor. New York: Fox, Duffield, 1904. Print.
- Rasmussen, Louis J. . San Francisco Ship Passenger Lists 4 Volumes Colma, California 1965 Reprint. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1978. Print.
- Grehan, Ida. Dictionary of Irish Family Names. Boulder: Roberts Rinehart, 1997. Print. (ISBN 1-57098-137-X).
- MacLysaght, Edward. Mores Irish Familes. Dublin: Irish Academic, 1982. Print. (ISBN 0-7165-0126-0).
- Fitzgerald, Thomas W. Ireland and Her People A Library of Irish Biography 5 Volumes. Chicago: Fitzgerald. Print.
- Robb H. Amanda and Andrew Chesler. Encyclopedia of American Family Names. New York: Haper Collins, 1995. Print. (ISBN 0-06-270075-8).
- Burke, Sir Bernard. General Armory Of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Ramsbury: Heraldry Today. Print.
- Sullivan, Sir Edward. The Book of Kells 3rd Edition. New York: Crescent Books, 1986. Print. (ISBN 0-517-61987-3).
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