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Where did the English Delley family come from? What is the English Delley family crest and coat of arms? When did the Delley family first arrive in the United States? Where did the various branches of the family go? What is the Delley family history? Delley is a name of ancient Anglo-Saxon origin and comes from the family once having lived beside the water. The surname Delley originally derived from the Old English word dell which referred to someone who inhabited an area close to a body of water or glade.Sound was what guided spelling in the essentially pre-literate Middle Ages, so one person's name was often recorded under several variations during a single lifetime. Also, before the advent of the printing press and the first dictionaries, the English language was not standardized. Therefore, spelling variations were common, even among the names of the most literate people. Known variations of the Delley family name include Dell, Delle, Dells and others. First found in Sussex where they held a family seat from ancient times. Dell means literally in the Saxon dialect "a dweller by the water," or "dell" a glade. This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Delley research. Another 271 words(19 lines of text) covering the year 1296 is included under the topic Early Delley History in all our PDF Extended History products. More information is included under the topic Early Delley Notables in all our PDF Extended History products. For political, religious, and economic reasons, thousands of English families boarded ships for Ireland, Canada, the America colonies, and many of smaller tropical colonies in the hope of finding better lives abroad. Although the passage on the cramped, dank ships caused many to arrive in the New World diseased and starving, those families that survived the trip often went on to make valuable contributions to those new societies to which they arrived. Early immigrants bearing the Delley surname or a spelling variation of the name include: George Dell who settled first in Boston, and then moved to Salem Massachusetts, about the year 1630. He became a freeman in the year 1651. He was a merchant and died on a voyage to England in 1654. Thomas Dell settled in Pennsylvania in 1682.
The Delley Family Crest was acquired from the Houseofnames.com archives. The Delley 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. This page was last modified on 27 October 2010 at 13:30. ©2000-2012 Swyrich Corporation. See Terms of Use for details. houseofnames.com is an internet property owned by Swyrich Corporation. Tools
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