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Where did the French Porter family come from? What is the French Porter family crest and coat of arms? When did the Porter family first arrive in the United States? Where did the various branches of the family go? What is the Porter family history?
Noble surnames, such as Porter, evoke images of the ancient homeland of the French people. The original bearer of the name Porter, which is a local surname, once lived, held land, or was born in the beautiful region of France. In France, hereditary surnames were adopted according to fairly general rules and during the late Middle Ages, names that were derived from localities became increasingly widespread. Local names originally denoted the proprietorship of the village or estate. The Porter family originally lived near a door or gate of particular interest, such as the gates to a fortified city or a unusually large or unique door. The name Porter is derived from the Old French words la and porte, which mean the and door respectively.
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Please remember that this page is only a small extract of our complete history that includes: - Ancient origin of the name (usually pre-1100)
- Known spelling variations
- Early movement of the family name during the Middle Ages
- Noteworthy bearers from the 1500-1600s
- First settlers to North America
- Notable contemporary bearers of the name
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Spelling variations of this family name include: Laport, Laporte, De La Porte, LaPort, LaPorte, Laporter, Laportere, Laporterie, Lapotre, Port, Porte, Porter, Portere, Porterie and many more.First found in Berry in central France where this distinguished family held a family seat in d'Ysserteux, and were members of the aristocratic families of the region. In the same region of Berry they also branched to Riants.
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This is a small excerpt from our full listing of settlers for the name Porter. Our PDF Extended History provide the complete listing from our dbase of over 500,000 settlers!
Some of the first settlers of this family name were:
Porter Settlers in the United States in the 17th Century
- Abraham Porter, who arrived in Virginia in 1624-1625
- Edmond Porter, aged 35, landed in Virginia in 1635
- Edward Porter, aged 21, landed in St Christopher in 1635
- Henry Porter, aged 30, arrived in Virginia in 1635
- Edmund Porter, who arrived in Virginia in 1636
Porter Settlers in the United States in the 18th Century
- Hendrik Porter, aged 14, landed in New York in 1710
- Hannah Porter, who landed in Virginia in 1717
- Charles Ram Porter, who landed in Antigua (Antego) in 1752-1756
Porter Settlers in the United States in the 19th Century
- Elitia Porter, aged 44, landed in New Castle or Philadelphia in 1804
- Catherine Porter, aged 22, landed in New Castle or Philadelphia in 1804
- Farr Porter, who arrived in America in 1805
- Hugh Porter, aged 24, landed in Philadelphia, Pa in 1805
- James Porter, who arrived in Allegany (Allegheny) County, Pa in 1808
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- David Porter (1780-1843), American naval officer
- Katherine Anne Porter (1894-1980), American Pulitzer Prize (1966) winning author
- William Sydney Porter (1862-1910), American short story author, who wrote under the name O. Henry
- Edwin Stanton Porter (1870-1941), American movie director and filmmaker
- James Davis Porter (1828-1912), American politician and diplomat
- Cole Albert Porter (1893-1964), American composer of musicals and a member of the French Foreign Legion, which honors him with a portrait that hangs in the Legion's official museum
- Gary Porter, American co-winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting
- Sir George Porter (1920-2002), Baron Porter of Luddenham, British scientist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1967
- Rodney Robert Porter (1917-1985), British physiologist, who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1972
- Peter Neville Frederick Porter (b. 1929), Australian-born British poet awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in 2004 and in 2007 he was made a Royal Society of Literature Companion of Literature, an honor granted to a maximum of ten living writers
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- Edward Culver, John Porter and Mary Estey: a Line of Descent from Two Puritans and a Salem Witch, with Allied Families by Marilyn V. Squires Mills.
- A Family History, William Porter, Jr. of Rockbridge County, Virginia (1740-1804) by Mary E. Porter.
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- Filby, P. William and Mary K Meyer. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index in Four Volumes. Detroit: Gale Research, 1985. Print. (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8).
- De Ville, Winston. Gulf Coast Colonials, A Compendium of French Families in Early Eighteenth Century Louisiana. Baltimore, MD: Clearfield, 1999. Print.
- Samuelsen, W. David. New York City Passenger List Manifests Index 1820 - 1824. North Salt Lake, Utah: Accelerated Indexing Systems International, 1986. Print.
- Robb H. Amanda and Andrew Chesler. Encyclopedia of American Family Names. New York: Haper Collins, 1995. Print. (ISBN 0-06-270075-8).
- Hanks, Patricia and Flavia Hodges. A Dictionary of Surnames. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. Print. (ISBN 0-19-211592-8).
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