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Where did the English Blanchard family come from? What is the English Blanchard family crest and coat of arms? When did the Blanchard family first arrive in the United States? Where did the various branches of the family go? What is the Blanchard family history?
The first bearer of the name Blanchard most likely took on this name based on an early member of the family who was a person with a whitish, or white appearance having derived from the Old French word blanchart. Experts theorize that Blanchard may have also been a nickname for someone with an exceptionally pure character, since white was the symbolic color of purity during the Middle Ages.
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- First settlers to North America
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There are many spelling variations of Breton surnames, because the Old and Middle English languages lacked definite spelling rules. The official court languages, which were Latin and French, were also influential on the spelling of a surname. Since the spelling of surnames was rarely consistent in medieval times, and scribes and church officials recorded names as they sounded rather than adhering to any specific spelling rules, it was common to find references to one individual with many different spellings of their surname in the ancient chronicles. Moreover, a large number of foreign names were brought into England, which accelerated and accentuated the alterations to the spelling of various surnames. The name has been spelled Blanchard, Blanchaud and others.First found in Lancashire where they held a family seat from early times at Grimsbargh Hall.
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This is a small excerpt from our full listing of settlers for the name Blanchard. Our PDF Extended History provide the complete listing from our dbase of over 500,000 settlers!
Records show the name Blanchard in some of the earliest immigrant records of North America:
Blanchard Settlers in the United States in the 17th Century
- Thomas Blanchard, who arrived in Charlestown, Mass in 1639
- Mattheus Blanchard, who landed in New Netherland(s) in 1660
- William Blanchard settled in Barbados in 1680 with his servants
- Elie Blanchard, who landed in South Carolina in 1680
- Henri Blanchard, aged 24, arrived in South Carolina in 1680
Blanchard Settlers in the United States in the 18th Century
- Sarah Blanchard, who landed in Boston, Mass in 1712
- Louis Blanchard settled in Louisiana in 1719
- John Blanchard, who arrived in South Carolina in 1756
- James Blanchard, who arrived in New York in 1761
- Joseph Blanchard, who landed in Baltimore, Md in 1763
Blanchard Settlers in the United States in the 19th Century
- Mr. Blanchard, who landed in Pennsylvania in 1805
- William Blanchard, who arrived in America in 1806
- Wm Blanchard, aged 27, landed in America in 1822
- Elizabeth Blanchard, aged 25, arrived in America in 1822
- Francie Blanchard, who arrived in Savanna(h), Ga in 1826
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- Lennard, Reginald. Rural England 1086-1135 A Study of Social and Agrarian Conditions. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1959. Print.
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- Best, Hugh. Debrett's Texas Peerage. New York: Coward-McCann, 1983. Print. (ISBN 069811244X).
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- Mills, A.D. Dictionary of English Place-Names. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. Print. (ISBN 0-19-869156-4).
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