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Where did the English Map family come from? What is the English Map family crest and coat of arms? When did the Map family first arrive in the United States? Where did the various branches of the family go? What is the Map family history?

The name is most likely derived from the Old English "Mappa," but perhaps also from the Old Welsh word "map," meaning "son."

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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 Map family name include Mapes, Mappes, Map, Mapys and others.

First found in Herefordshire, where a Walter map was recorded in the "Charters of the Earldom of Hereford" between the years 1161 and1181.


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This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Map research. Another 72 words(5 lines of text) covering the years 1212 and 1406 are included under the topic Early Map History in all our PDF Extended History products.

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Another 28 words(2 lines of text) are included under the topic Early Map Notables in all our PDF Extended History products.

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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 Map surname or a spelling variation of the name include: John Mapes, who arrived in Massachusetts in 1634 at age 21; Thomas Mapes, who came to Long Island in 1640; William Mapes, who arrived in Antigua in 1729 at age 17.

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  • Walter Map (1137-1209), Welsh ecclesiastic


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  10. Crozier, William Armstrong Edition. Crozier's General Armory A Registry of American Families Entitled to Coat Armor. New York: Fox, Duffield, 1904. Print.
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The Map Family Crest was acquired from the Houseofnames.com archives. The Map 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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