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Where did the English Bassett family come from? What is the English Bassett family crest and coat of arms? When did the Bassett family first arrive in the United States? Where did the various branches of the family go? What is the Bassett family history?
The name Bassett is part of the ancient legacy of the early Norman inhabitants that arrived in England after the Norman Conquest of 1066. Bassett was a Norman name used for a person of small stature having derived from the Old English word bas, meaning short.
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- First settlers to North America
- Notable contemporary bearers of the name
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Anglo-Norman names tend to be marked by an enormous number of spelling variations. This is largely due to the fact that Old and Middle English lacked any spelling rules when Norman French was introduced in the 11th century. The languages of the English courts at that time were French and Latin. These various languages mixed quite freely in the evolving social milieu. The final element of this mix is that medieval scribes spelled words according to their sounds rather than any definite rules, so a name was often spelled in as many different ways as the number of documents it appeared in. The name was spelled Bassett, Basset, Bassit, Basett and others.First found in the county of Glamorgan, Wales, where they had been granted lands by King William after the Norman Conquest in 1066.
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Some of the Bassett family moved to Ireland, but this topic is not covered in this excerpt. Another 87 words(6 lines of text) about their life in Ireland is included in all our PDF Extended History products.
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This is a small excerpt from our full listing of settlers for the name Bassett. Our PDF Extended History provide the complete listing from our dbase of over 500,000 settlers!
Because of the political and religious discontent in England, families began to migrate abroad in enormous numbers. Faced with persecution and starvation at home, the open frontiers and generally less oppressive social environment of the New World seemed tantalizing indeed to many English people. The trip was difficult, and not all made it unscathed, but many of those who did get to Canada and the United States made important contributions to the young nations in which they settled. Some of the first North American settlers with Bassett name or one of its variants:
Bassett Settlers in the United States in the 17th Century
- William Bassett, who arrived in America in 1620
- William Bassett, who landed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1621
- Williamn Bassett (c. 1600–d. 1667), English master mason from Sandwich, Kent who arrived in Plymouth in November 1621 aboard the ship Fortune
- Oliver Bassett, aged 14, arrived in America in 1635
- Oliver Bassett who settled in Barbados in 1635
Bassett Settlers in the United States in the 18th Century
- Thomas Bassett, who landed in New England in 1715
- Cornelius Bassett, who landed in Newport, Rhode Island in 1780
Bassett Settlers in the United States in the 19th Century
- Frederick Bassett, who landed in New York in 1826
- Alexander Bassett, who arrived in New York, NY in 1834
- George Bassett, who landed in New York in 1844
- R G Bassett, who arrived in San Francisco, California in 1851
- Mr. Bassett, who landed in San Francisco, California in 1851
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- Leslie Bassett (b. 1923), American composer
- Captain Charles Arthur "Art" Bassett II (1931-1966), former NASA Astronaut
- Angela Bassett (b. 1958), award-winning American actor
- Richard Bassett (1745-1815), American lawyer and politician, delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1787
- William Isiah Bassett (1869-1937), English footballer
- Sir Walter Bassett (1892-1978), Australian engineer
- John White Hughes Bassett PC, OC, O.Ont (1915-1998), Canadian publisher and media baron
- Corporal Cyril Royston Guyton Bassett VC (1892-1983), the first New Zealander to be awarded the Victoria Cross in World War I
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- Joseph Bassett, Englishman and American by Barbara M. Anderson.
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The motto was originally a war cry or slogan. Mottoes first began to be shown with arms in the 14th and 15th centuries, but were not in general use until the 17th century. Thus the oldest coats of arms generally do not include a motto. Mottoes seldom form part of the grant of arms: Under most heraldic authorities, a motto is an optional component of the coat of arms, and can be added to or changed at will; many families have chosen not to display a motto.
Motto: Pro rege et populo
Motto Translation: For King and people.
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Our PDF Coat of Arms + Extended History product is the whole package all in one. With a full color Coat of Arms along with a very detailed History, full symbolism, bibliography and settlers listed by the centuries.
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- Bede, The Venerable. Historia Ecclesiatica Gentis Anglorum (The Ecclesiastical History Of the English People). Available through Internet Medieval Sourcebook the Fordham University Centre for Medieval Studies. Print.
- Markale, J. Celtic Civilization. London: Gordon & Cremonesi, 1976. Print.
- Crozier, William Armstrong Edition. Crozier's General Armory A Registry of American Families Entitled to Coat Armor. New York: Fox, Duffield, 1904. Print.
- 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).
- Burke, Sir Bernard. General Armory Of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Ramsbury: Heraldry Today. Print.
- Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Galveston Texas 1896-1951. National Archives Washington DC. Print.
- Virkus, Frederick A. Ed. Immigrant Ancestors A List of 2,500 Immigrants to America Before 1750. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1964. Print.
- Bowman, George Ernest. The Mayflower Reader A Selection of Articales from The Mayflower Descendent. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing. Print.
- Elster, Robert J. International Who's Who. London: Europa/Routledge. Print.
- Filby, P. William and Mary K Meyer. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index in Four Volumes. Detroit: Gale Research, 1985. Print. (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8).
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The Bassett Family Crest was acquired from the Houseofnames.com archives. The Bassett 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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