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Rowantree Family Crest
Rowantree Family Crest
Rowantree

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

The Rowantree surname comes from the Middle English word "rown" and the Old English word "tree;" meaning together, a "rowan tree." Thus the first to bear the name likely lived near such a tree.

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Spelling variations of this family name include: Rowntree, Rountree, Rowantree and others.

First found in Cumberland where they held a family seat from early times and their first records appeared on the early census rolls taken by the early Kings of Britain to determine the rate of taxation of their subjects.


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This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Rowantree research. Another 289 words(21 lines of text) are included under the topic Early Rowantree History in all our PDF Extended History products.

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More information is included under the topic Early Rowantree Notables in all our PDF Extended History products.

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Some of the Rowantree family moved to Ireland, but this topic is not covered in this excerpt. Another 159 words(11 lines of text) about their life in Ireland is included 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: Thomas Rowntree, who settled in South Carolina in 1674; Elizabeth Roundtree, who arrived in Virginia in 1686; James R. Rowntree, who came to Philadelphia in 1798.

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  10. Colletta, John P. They Came In Ships. Salt Lake City: Ancestry, 1993. Print.
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The Rowantree Family Crest was acquired from the Houseofnames.com archives. The Rowantree 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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