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Where did the English Hornby family come from? What is the English Hornby family crest and coat of arms? When did the Hornby family first arrive in the United States? Where did the various branches of the family go? What is the Hornby family history?
The roots of the Anglo-Saxon name Hornby come from when the family resided in one of the places called Hornby in Lancashire, Westmorland (now part of Cumbria), or the North Riding of Yorkshire.
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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
- A description and/or full color picture of the Coat of Arms, Crest, and Motto (where available)
The English language only became standardized in the last few centuries; therefore, spelling variations are common among early Anglo-Saxon names. As the form of the English language changed, even the spelling of literate people's names evolved. Hornby has been recorded under many different variations, including Hornby, Hornbie and others.First found in Lancashire 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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This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Hornby research. Another 235 words(17 lines of text) are included under the topic Early Hornby 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 Hornby. Our PDF Extended History provide the complete listing from our dbase of over 500,000 settlers!
For many English families, the political and religious disarray that shrouded England made the far away New World an attractive prospect. On cramped disease-ridden ships, thousands migrated to those British colonies that would eventually become Canada and the United States. Those hardy settlers that survived the journey often went on to make important contributions to the emerging nations in which they landed. Analysis of immigration records indicates that some of the first North American immigrants bore the name Hornby or a variant listed above:
Hornby Settlers in the United States in the 18th Century
- Mercy Hornby settled in Virginia in 1735
Hornby Settlers in the United States in the 19th Century
- Mary Hornby and Joseph Hornby arrived in Philadelphia with four children in 1820
- John Hornby, who arrived in New York, NY in 1828
- Thomas Hornby settled in Newcastle Del. in 1835
- Edward Orsen Hornby, who arrived in New York in 1839
- Charles K Hornby, who landed in Indiana in 1851
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- Robert Hornby, American Engineer
- Sir Phipps Hornby (1785-1867), English Naval Commander
- Albert Sidney Hornby (1898-1978), English teacher, grammarian and lexicographer who is best known for his "Learner's Dictionary of Current English"
- Sir Geoffrey Thomas Phippe Hornby (1825-1895), English Naval Commander, son of Sir Phipps Hornby
- Lesley Hornby (b. 1946), original name of Twiggy, the English model, actress, and singer
- James Hornby, British Lawyer
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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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- Sanders, Joanne McRee Edition. English Settlers in Barbados 1637-1800. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing. Print.
- Zieber, Eugene. Heraldry in America. Philadelphia: Genealogical Publishing Co. Print.
- Papworth, J.W and A.W Morant. Ordinary of British Armorials. London: T.Richards, 1874. Print.
- Bolton, Charles Knowles. Bolton's American Armory. Baltimore: Heraldic Book Company, 1964. Print.
- Marcharn, Frederick George. A Constitutional History of Modern England 1485 to the Present. London: Harper and Brothers, 1960. Print.
- Virkus, Frederick A. Ed. Immigrant Ancestors A List of 2,500 Immigrants to America Before 1750. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1964. Print.
- Bullock, L.G. Historical Map of England and Wales. Edinburgh: Bartholomew and Son, 1971. Print.
- Crispin, M. Jackson and Leonce Mary. Falaise Roll Recording Prominent Companions of William Duke of Normandy at the Conquest of England. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing. Print.
- Bardsley, C.W. A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames: With Special American Instances. Wiltshire: Heraldry Today, 1901. Print. (ISBN 0-900455-44-6).
- Lennard, Reginald. Rural England 1086-1135 A Study of Social and Agrarian Conditions. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1959. Print.
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The Hornby Family Crest was acquired from the Houseofnames.com archives. The Hornby 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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