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Marchment Family Crest
Marchment Family Crest
Marchment

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

The surname Marchment was an occupational name for a merchant having derived from the Old French, Middle English word "marchant," which in turn came from the Late Latin "mercatans."

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Spelling variations of this family name include: Merchant, Merchand, Marchand, Mercator and others.

First found in Buckinghamshire, where they held a family seat from early times and granted lands by King William for their assistance at the Battle of Hastings in 1066 A.D. They were originally from Normandy being tradesmen for Le Merchant. By 1180 they had been granted lands north of the border in Scotland when Rudolph Mercater held lands in Dunfermline.


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This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Marchment research. Another 305 words(22 lines of text) covering the year 1298 is included under the topic Early Marchment History in all our PDF Extended History products.

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Some of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: Jeffry Merchant, who arrived in Virginia in 1637; Captain Merchant, who came to North Carolina in 1674; George and Emmanuel Merchant settled in Barbados in 1685.

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The Marchment Family Crest was acquired from the Houseofnames.com archives. The Marchment 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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