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Alfred History Early Origins Early History Early Notables Ranking

Contemporary Notables Related Stories Citations

Alfred History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

Origins Available:
England
Portugal

Originally known as Quinta de Abreu, this family originated in Upper Normandy, Évreux, Eure, Normandy, France where Gonçalo Martins de Abreu (Evreux) (c. 1070-1230) was born. It is believed that his father was Gomes Lourenço de Abreu born (c. 1065-1185.) While the coat of arms for the family remained the same through the centuries, the reason for the migration from Normandy to Portugal is unknown.

Early Origins of the Alfred family

The surname Alfred was first found in the parish of S. Pedro de Merufe, Monção, where the oldest known nobleman is Gomes de Abreu, father of Rui Comes de Abreu and Garcia Comes de Abreu, who lived during the time of D. Afonso Henriques, on that farm, and owned other lands in the region. 1 Other sources claim the family settled in the Minho region of northern Portugal.

Early History of the Alfred family

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Alfred research. Another 247 words (18 lines of text) covering the years 1100, 1170, 1230, 1280, 1290, 1340, 1350, 1375, 1433, 1480, 1507, 1511, 1512, 1514, 1568, 1630, 1688, 1721, 1738 and 1756 are included under the topic Early Alfred History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Early Notables of the Alfred family

Prominent members of the family include Maria Gomes de Abreu (c. 1280), daughter of Gomes Lourenço de Abreu, 2.º Senhor da Torre e Honra de Abreu (c. 1230.) Rui Gomes de Abreu, 2º Senhor da Torre de Abreu (c. 1170) was son of Gomes de Abreu, also known as "Gomes Lourenço de Abreu" (c. 1100) All of these families held the same coat of arms. Aleixo de Abreu (1568-1630) was a Portuguese physician and tropical pathologist. António de Abreu (c. 1480 - c. 1514) was a...
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Alfred Ranking

In the United States, the name Alfred is the 4,520^th most popular surname with an estimated 7,461 people with that name. 2 However, in France, the name Alfred is ranked the 6,673^rd most popular surname with an estimated 1,000 - 1,500 people with that name. 3

Alfred migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Alfred Settlers in United States in the 17th Century

Moses Alfred, who landed in Maryland in 1675 4

Alfred Settlers in United States in the 18th Century

Robert Alfred, aged 22, who arrived in Virginia in 1773 4
Robert Alfred who settled in Virginia at the age of 22 in 1774

Alfred Settlers in United States in the 19th Century

George Alfred, who arrived in Philadelphia in 1870

Alfred migration to Australia +

Emigration to Australia followed the First Fleets of convicts, tradespeople and early settlers. Early immigrants include:

Alfred Settlers in Australia in the 19th Century

Mr. Charles Alfred, (b. 1818), aged 20, Irish carpenter who was convicted in Carlow, Ireland for 7 years for house breaking, transported aboard the "Elphinstone" on 29th December 1838, arriving in New South Wales, Australia, he died in 1839 5

Alfred migration to New Zealand +

Emigration to New Zealand followed in the footsteps of the European explorers, such as Captain Cook (1769-70): first came sealers, whalers, missionaries, and traders. By 1838, the British New Zealand Company had begun buying land from the Maori tribes, and selling it to settlers, and, after the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840, many British families set out on the arduous six month journey from Britain to Aotearoa to start a new life. Early immigrants include:

Alfred Settlers in New Zealand in the 19th Century

Delisle Alfred, who arrived in Nelson, New Zealand aboard the ship "Anne Longton" in 1860 6
Alfred M., who arrived in Auckland, New Zealand aboard the ship "Oxford" in 1874

Contemporary Notables of the name Alfred (post 1700) +

Mike Alfred, South African poet
Jean Alfred Ph.D (1940-2015), Canadian politician, Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for Papineau (1976-1981)
Arnold Montague Alfred, Director of British Printing Corporation
Charles Alfred Pillsbury (1842-1899), American co-founder of C.A. Pillsbury and Company with his uncle John Sargent Pillsbury in 1872
Henry Alfred Kissinger (1923-2023), German-born American diplomat, US Secretary of State, 1973 Nobel Peace Prize laureate and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
Peter Alfred Penfold CMG, OBE (1944-2023), British diplomat who was the youngest governor of the British Virgin Islands and was High Commissioner to the Republic of Sierra Leone
Gordon Alfred Tidman QC (b. 1932), Canadian lawyer, politician and jurist who represented the electoral district of Kings West in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1967 to 1971
Roy Alfred Roper (1923-2023), New Zealand rugby union player. Member of the New Zealand national side, the All Blacks, from 1949 to 1950. He later served as treasurer of the Taranaki Rugby Football Union from 1952 to 1971
Roy Alfred Roper (1923-2023), New Zealand rugby union player who represented Taranaki at a provincial level, and was a member of the New Zealand national side, the All Blacks, from 1949 to 1950
Sir Alleyne Alfred Boxall (1855-1927), 1st Baronet

Citations +

De Faria, Antonio Machado. Armorial lusitano: genealogia e heráldica. Lisboa, 1961. Print
"What are the 5,000 Most Common Last Names in the U.S.?". NameCensus.com, https://namecensus.com/last-names/
http://www.journaldesfemmes.com/nom-de-famille/nom/
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)
Convict Records Australia. Retrieved on 18th March 2022 from https://convictrecords.com.au/ships/elphinstone
New Zealand Yesteryears Passenger Lists 1800 to 1900 (Retrieved 17th October 2018). Retrieved from http://www.yesteryears.co.nz/shipping/passlist.html