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Where did the Scottish Blain family come from? What is the Scottish Blain family crest and coat of arms? When did the Blain family first arrive in the United States? Where did the various branches of the family go? What is the Blain family history?
Blain comes from Scottish naming traditions. The ancestors of the surname lived among the Boernicians of the Scottish/English Borderlands. The name is derived from the Gaelic personal name Bleen, which means yellow. It was also the name of an early Celtic saint.
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- First settlers to North America
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Before the first dictionaries and printing presses went into use in the last few hundred years, spelling, particularly of names, was a largely intuitive matter. Consequently, many spelling variations occur in even the simplest names from the Middle Ages. Blain has been spelled Blain, Blane, Blaine, Blaines, Blahan and others.First found in Ayrshire, where they held a family seat from very ancient times, some say well before the Norman Conquest and the arrival of Duke William at Hastings in 1066 A.D.
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Some of the Blain family moved to Ireland, but this topic is not covered in this excerpt. Another 264 words(19 lines of text) about their life in Ireland is included in all our PDF Extended History products.
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The east coasts of the United States and Canada are still populated by many of the descendents of the Boernician-Scottish families who made that great crossing. They distributed themselves evenly when they first arrived, but at the time of the War of Independence those who remained loyal to England went north to Canada as United Empire Loyalists. This century, many of their ancestors have recovered their past heritage through highland games and other Scottish functions in North America. Many of these hardy settlers went on to make important contributions to the emerging nations in which they landed. Investigation of the origins of family names on the North American continent has revealed that many immigrants bearing the name Blain or a variant listed above:
Blain Settlers in the United States in the 18th Century
- Eliza Blain who settled in New York in 1774
- Leonard Blain, who arrived in America in 1795
Blain Settlers in the United States in the 19th Century
- Peter Blain settled in Philadelphia in 1805
- Robert Blain, aged 29, arrived in Tennessee in 1812
- Thomas Blain, aged 31, arrived in New York in 1812
- Andrew Blain, who arrived in Charleston, SC in 1813
- John Blain settled in New Orleans in 1820
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- Alexandre Blain III, American Surgeon and Educator
- Gérard Blain (1930-2000), French Actor, Director, and Writer
- David Blain (b. 1832), Canadian politician, Member of the Canadian House of Commons
- David Blain, Lawyer in Toronto, Senior Member of the firm of Blain, Ferguson and Parkinson, Canada
- Richard Blain (b. 1857), Canadian politician, Members of the Canadian House of Commons
- Brian Blain, Australian film and television actor
- Tony Elston Blain (b. 1962), New Zealand Cricketer
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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: Paritur pax bello
Motto Translation: Peace is obtained by war.
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- Bloxham, Ben. Key to Parochial Registers of Scotland From Earliest Times Through 1854 2nd edition. Provo, UT: Stevenson's Genealogical Center, 1979. Print.
- Moody David. Scottish Family History. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1994. Print. (ISBN 0806312688).
- Best, Hugh. Debrett's Texas Peerage. New York: Coward-McCann, 1983. Print. (ISBN 069811244X).
- Le Patourel, John. The Norman Empire. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976. Print. (ISBN 0-19-822525-3).
- Matthews, John. Matthews' American Armoury and Blue Book. London: John Matthews, 1911. Print.
- Fairbairn,. Fairbain's book of Crests of the Families of Great Britain and Ireland, 4th Edition 2 volumes in one. Baltimore: Heraldic Book Company, 1968. Print.
- Holt, J.C. Ed. Domesday Studies. Woodbridge: Boydell, 1987. Print. (ISBN 0-85115-477-8).
- 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).
- 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).
- Magnusson, Magnus. Chambers Biographical Dictionary 5th edition. Edinburgh: W & R Chambers, 1990. Print.
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The Blain Family Crest was acquired from the Houseofnames.com archives. The Blain 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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