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Where did the English Drey family come from? What is the English Drey family crest and coat of arms? When did the Drey family first arrive in the United States? Where did the various branches of the family go? What is the Drey family history?
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Please remember that this page is only a small extract of our complete history that includes: - Ancient origin of the name (usually pre-1100)
- Known spelling variations
- Early movement of the family name during the Middle Ages
- Noteworthy bearers from the 1500-1600s
- First settlers to North America
- Notable contemporary bearers of the name
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Spelling variations of this family name include: Dry, Drey, Drye, Dray, Dreigh, Drie, Dreye and others.First found in Norfolk where they held a family seat as Lords of the Manor. The Saxon influence of English history diminished after the Battle of Hastings in 1066. The language of the courts was French for the next three centuries and the Norman ambience prevailed. But Saxon surnames survived and the family name was first referenced in the year 1219 when Roger Drie held estates in that county.
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Our PDF Extended History includes the early history!
This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Drey research. Another 297 words(21 lines of text) covering the years 1321, 1455, 1487, and 1858 are included under the topic Early Drey History 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 Drey. Our PDF Extended History provide the complete listing from our dbase of over 500,000 settlers!
Some of the first settlers of this family name were:
Drey Settlers in the United States in the 18th Century
- Johannes Drey, who settled in Pennsylvania in 1754
- Johannes Drey, who landed in Pennsylvania in 1754
Drey Settlers in the United States in the 19th Century
- Antoine Drey, who arrived in America in 1817
- Georges Drey, who came to America in 1846
- Elkin Drey, who came to Mississippi in 1850
- Elkin Drey, who arrived in Mississippi in 1850
- Max Drey, who settled in Oregon in 1890
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- Marcharn, Frederick George. A Constitutional History of Modern England 1485 to the Present. London: Harper and Brothers, 1960. 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.
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The Drey Family Crest was acquired from the Houseofnames.com archives. The Drey 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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