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O'Day Family Crest
O'Day Family Crest
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Where did the Irish O'Day family come from? What is the Irish O'Day family crest and coat of arms? When did the O'Day family first arrive in the United States? Where did the various branches of the family go? What is the O'Day family history?

All Irish surnames have a unique and often romantic meaning. The name O'Day originally appeared in Gaelic as O Deaghaidh or O Diaghaidh.

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The recording of names in Ireland in the Middle Ages was an inconsistent endeavor at best. The many regional dialects and the predominate illiteracy would have made common surnames appear unrelated to the scribes of the period. Research into the name O'Day revealed spelling variations, including Day, Dea, O'Dea and others.

First found in County Clare, where O'Dea was chief of Dysart-O'Dea, now the parish of Dysart, barony of Inchiquin, one of the original chiefs and clans of ancient Thomond.


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This web page shows only a small excerpt of our O'Day research. Another 396 words(28 lines of text) covering the years 1318 and 1434 are included under the topic Early O'Day History in all our PDF Extended History products.

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Another 280 words(20 lines of text) are included under the topic Early O'Day Notables in all our PDF Extended History products.

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In the late 18th century, Irish families began emigrating to North America in the search of a plot of land to call their own. This pattern of emigration grew steadily until the 1840s when the Great Potato Famine of the 1840s cause thousands of Irish to flee the death and disease that accompanied the disaster. Those that made it alive to the shores of the United States and British North America (later to become Canada) were, however, instrumental in the development of those two powerful nations. Many of these Irish immigrants proudly bore the name of O'Day: Stephen Day who became a prominent merchant in Virginia soon after arriving in 1638. Another Stephen Daye (1594-1668), was the first printer in New England, and produced the first book printed in the English colonies. Cambridge Massachusetts granted his three hundred acres of land for "being the first that sett upon printing." A large contingent of the family also settled in Canada beginning in the 1840's..

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  • Anita O'Day (1919-2006), American jazz singer
  • Alan O'Day (b. 1940), American singer-songwriter
  • Aubrey O'Day (b. 1984), American singer, dancer, actress, songwriter, fashion designer, former member of the group Danity Kane
  • Caroline Love Goodwin O'Day (1875-1943), American politician
  • Devon O'Day (b. 1962), American radio personality, former plus-sized model for the Ford Modeling Agency, songwriter, and an author
  • George O'Day (1923-1987), American sailor, Olympic champion and boat designer
  • Hank O'Day (1862-1935), American right-handed pitcher, umpire and manager in Major League Baseball
  • Marcus O'Day (1897-1961), American physicist
  • Molly O'Day (1911-1998), American film actress
  • Molly O'Day (1923-1987), American country music vocalist in the late 1940s

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  2. Bolton, Charles Knowles. Bolton's American Armory. Baltimore: Heraldic Book Company, 1964. Print.
  3. Hanks, Patricia and Flavia Hodges. A Dictionary of Surnames. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. Print. (ISBN 0-19-211592-8).
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  6. MacLysaght, Edward. The Surnames of Ireland 3rd Edition. Dublin: Irish Academic, 1978. Print. (ISBN 0-7165-2278-0).
  7. Hickey, D.J. and J.E. Doherty. A New Dictionary of Irish History form 1800 2nd Edition. Dublin: Gil & MacMillian, 2003. Print.
  8. Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Galveston Texas 1896-1951. National Archives Washington DC. Print.
  9. Zieber, Eugene. Heraldry in America. Philadelphia: Genealogical Publishing Co. Print.
  10. Burke, Sir Bernard. General Armory Of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Ramsbury: Heraldry Today. Print.
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The O'Day Family Crest was acquired from the Houseofnames.com archives. The O'Day 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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