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Where did the French Plant family come from? What is the French Plant family crest and coat of arms? When did the Plant family first arrive in the United States? Where did the various branches of the family go? What is the Plant family history?
The French name Plant first arose during the Medieval period in Normandy. It is derived from when the family having lived in Normandy at the Seigneury De Planques, from which their name is derived.
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- First settlers to North America
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There were a great number of spelling variations in French surnames. One reason for this was the wide variety of cultural influences present in France during the early development of the French language. The many spelling variations of the name include Plant, Plante, Le Plant, Le Plante, Planque, Planquette, LaPlante, Laplante, Leplante, Planté, Duplante, Duplantie, Duplantis and many more.First found in Normandy where they were formerly seated in the honor of the seigneurie of De Planques in the region of Pas de Calais in the arrondissement of Montreuil sur Mer.
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This is a small excerpt from our full listing of settlers for the name Plant. Our PDF Extended History provide the complete listing from our dbase of over 500,000 settlers!
In 1643, 109 years after the first landings by Cartier, there were only about 300 people in Quebec, in 1663 there were only 500, 2,000 migrants arrived during the next decade. Early marriage was desperately encouraged amongst the immigrants. Youths of 18 took fourteen-year-old girls for their wives. The fur trade was developed and attracted migrants, both noble and commoner from France. 15,000 explorers left Montreal in the late 17th and 18th centuries. Migration from France to New France or Quebec as it was now more popularly called, continued from France until it fell in 1759. By 1675, there were 7000 French in Quebec. By the same year the Acadian presence in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island had reached 500. In 1755, 10,000 French Acadians refused to take an oath of allegiance to England and were deported to Louisiana. Meanwhile, in Quebec, the French race flourished, founding in Lower Canada, one of the two great solitudes which became Canada. Many distinguished contributions have been made by members of this family name Plant. It has been prominent in the arts, religion, politics and culture in France and New France. Amongst the settlers in North America with this distinguished name Plant were
Plant Settlers in the United States in the 17th Century
- Matthew Plant settled in Virginia in 1635
- Mathew Plant, aged 23, landed in Virginia in 1635
- Rich Plant, who landed in Virginia in 1638
- Thomas Plant who settled in Virginia in 1670
- William Plant, who landed in Virginia in 1698
Plant Settlers in the United States in the 18th Century
- John Plant, who landed in Virginia in 1715
- Elizabeth Plant, who landed in Virginia in 1715
- Mathias Plant, who arrived in New England in 1721
- Elizabeth Plant settled in Maryland in 1723
Plant Settlers in the United States in the 19th Century
- James Plant, aged 17, arrived in Alexandria, Va in 1818
- H. Plant settled in New York State in 1823
- James Plant settled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1841
- Minna Plant, aged 21, arrived in New York, NY in 1860
- Frank Plant settled in Philadelphia in 1863
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- Mary Terstegge Meagher Plant (b. 1964), former American competitive swimmer
- Henry Bradley Plant (1819-1899), American railroad manager
- Richard Plant (1910-1998), German-born American writer
- Robert Anthony Plant CBE (b. 1948), English rock singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist and lyricist of the rock band Led Zeppelin
- Sir Arnold Plant (1898-1978), Economist, University Professor
- Cyril Thomas Howe Plant CBE (1910-1986), British trade unionist
- Major-General Eric Clive Pegus Plant (1890-1950), Australian Officer Commanding New South Wales Lines of Communication Area from 1943 to 1946
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