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Where did the Irish Irish family come from? What is the Irish Irish family crest and coat of arms? When did the Irish family first arrive in the United States? Where did the various branches of the family go? What is the Irish family history?
When the Anglo- Normans began to settle in Ireland, they brought the tradition of local surnames to an island which already had a Gaelic naming system of hereditary surnames established. Unlike the Irish, the Anglo- Normans had an affinity for local surnames. Local surnames, such as Irish, were formed from the names of a place or a geographical landmark where the person lived, held land, or was born. The earliest Anglo-Norman surnames of this type came from Normandy, but as the Normans moved, they often created names that referred to where they actually resided. Therefore, English places were used for names when the Normans lived in England, and then Irish places when the Anglo- Normans had been settled in Ireland for some time. Originally, these place names were prefixed by "de," which means "from" in French. However, this type of prefix was eventually either made a part of the surname, if the place name began with a vowel, or it was eliminated entirely. The Irish family originally lived in the counties of Armagh or Antrim. As one might expect, the surname simply refers to a person from Ireland.
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Scribes and church officials generally spelled a name as it sounded; as a result a person's name could be spelt innumerable ways in his lifetime. Different spelling variations of the Anglo-Norman surname Irish were found in the many archives researched. These included Irish, Irishe, Ireys, Irysh, Iris and others.First found in Shropshire, where they settled very early in their history.
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This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Irish research. Another 237 words(17 lines of text) covering the years 1273 and 1379 are included under the topic Early Irish 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 Irish. Our PDF Extended History provide the complete listing from our dbase of over 500,000 settlers!
A great number of Irish families left their homeland in the late 18th and 19th centuries, migrating to such far away lands as Australia and North America. The early settlers left after much planning and deliberation. They were generally well off and but they desired a tract of land that they could farm solely for themselves. The great mass of immigrants to arrive on North American shores in the 1840s differed greatly from their predecessors because many of them were utterly destitute, selling all they had to gain a passage on a ship, or having their way paid by a philanthropic society. These Irish people were trying to escape the aftermath of the Great Potato Famine: poverty, starvation, disease, and, for many, ultimately death. Those that arrived on North American shores were not warmly welcomed by the established population, but they were vital to the rapid development of the industry, agriculture, and infrastructure of the infant nations of the United States and what would become Canada. Early passenger and immigration lists reveal many Irish settlers bearing the name Irish:
Irish Settlers in the United States in the 17th Century
- Henrie Irish, aged 16, arrived in Virginia in 1635
- John Irish, who arrived in Plymouth, Mass in 1637
- John Irish, who sailed to New England between 1620 and 1650
- Jone Irish to Virginia in 1653
- Jone Irish, who landed in Virginia in 1653
Irish Settlers in the United States in the 18th Century
- James Irish, who landed in New England in 1711
- Pegg Irish to Potomack, Maryland in 1731
- William Irish, who landed in America in 1760-1763
- William Irish to America in 1763
Irish Settlers in the United States in the 19th Century
- Charles Irish, aged 27, arrived in New York in 1812
- Thomas Irish, who arrived in New York in 1841
- G Irish, who landed in San Francisco, Cal in 1851
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We offer a large range of products for you to enjoy with your Coat of Arms. From the coffee cup in the kitchen to the frame in the living room.
- Ned Irish (1905-1982), American basketball promoter
- Carolyn Tanner Irish (b. 1940), American clergyman, the 10th Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Utah
- Edward S "Ned" Irish (1905-1982), American, basketball promoter, president of the New York Knicks (1946-1974), made a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1964
- Fred Irish, Arizona football coach, 1896-1906
- George Irish, Montserrat academic, professor of Caribbean studies
- Mark Irish (b. 1981), English rugby player
- Sir Ronald Arthur Irish (b. 1913), Australian business executive, Chairman of Rothmans of Pall Mall (Australia)
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- John Irish, His Life and Ancestors, 1086-1677 by George E. Irish.
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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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- 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.
- Leyburn, James Graham. The Scotch-Irish A Social History. Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1962. Print. (ISBN 0807842591).
- Donovan, George Francis. The Pre-Revolutionary Irish in Massachusetts 1620-1775. Menasha, WI: Geroge Banta Publsihing Co., 1932. Print.
- Heraldic Scroll and Map of Family names and Origins of Ireland. Dublin: Mullins. Print.
- Land Owners in Ireland. Genealogical Publishing. Print. (ISBN 0-8063-1203-3).
- MacLysaght, Edward. Mores Irish Familes. Dublin: Irish Academic, 1982. Print. (ISBN 0-7165-0126-0).
- Somerset Fry, Peter and Fiona Somerset Fry. A History of Ireland. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1993. Print. (ISBN 1-56619-215-3).
- Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Galveston Texas 1896-1951. National Archives Washington DC. Print.
- 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).
- O'Hart, John. Irish Pedigress 5th Edition in 2 Volumes. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1976. Print. (ISBN 0-8063-0737-4).
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The Irish Family Crest was acquired from the Houseofnames.com archives. The Irish 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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