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Where did the English Sweet family come from? What is the English Sweet family crest and coat of arms? When did the Sweet family first arrive in the United States? Where did the various branches of the family go? What is the Sweet family history?
The name Sweet comes from the ancient Anglo-Saxon culture of Britain. It was a name for a person who was referred to as swete, which is an Old English word used to describe a sweet or gentle person. A broad and miscellaneous class of surnames, nickname surnames referred to a characteristic of the first person who used the name. They can describe the bearer's favored style of clothing, appearance, habits, or character.
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- Known spelling variations
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- First settlers to North America
- Notable contemporary bearers of the name
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Only recently has spelling become standardized in the English language. As the English language evolved in the Middle Ages, the spelling of names changed also. The name Sweet has undergone many spelling variations, including Sweit, Sweet, Swete, Sweete, Sweett and others.First found in Somerset where they held a family seat from very ancient times, some say before the Norman Conquest of England in 1066 A.D.
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Some of the Sweet family moved to Ireland, but this topic is not covered in this excerpt. Another 121 words(9 lines of text) about their life in Ireland is included in all our PDF Extended History products.
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This is a small excerpt from our full listing of settlers for the name Sweet. Our PDF Extended History provide the complete listing from our dbase of over 500,000 settlers!
To escape the unstable social climate in England of this time, many families boarded ships for the New World with the hope of finding land, opportunity, and greater religious and political freedom. Although the voyages were expensive, crowded, and difficult, those families that arrived often found greater opportunities and freedoms than they could have experienced at home. Many of those families went on to make significant contributions to the rapidly developing colonies in which they settled. Early North American records indicate many people bearing the name Sweet were among those contributors:
Sweet Settlers in the United States in the 17th Century
- Robert Sweet who settled in Virginia in 1623
- Robert Sweet, who landed in Virginia in 1623
- John Sweet, who arrived in Salem, Massachusetts in 1630
- Thomas Sweet settled in Boston Massachusetts in 1633
- Win Sweet, who arrived in Virginia in 1650
Sweet Settlers in the United States in the 18th Century
- Amout Sweet, aged 13, arrived in New York in 1711
- Isaac Sweet, who arrived in Virginia in 1714
- William Sweet, who arrived in America in 1760-1763
Sweet Settlers in the United States in the 19th Century
- Lydna A Sweet, who arrived in Texas in 1835
- Darius T Sweet, who arrived in New York in 1837
- F P Sweet, who landed in San Francisco, California in 1851
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- Blanche Sweet (1896-1986), American silent film actress
- Edwin Forrest Sweet (1847-1935), American politician from the state of Michigan
- William Ellery Sweet (1869-1942), 23rd Governor of Colorado from 1923-1925
- Adolphus Jean "Dolph" Sweet (1920-1985), American actor who had nearly 60 television and film roles
- Elnathan Sweet (1837-1903), New York State Engineer and Surveyor (1884 to 1887)
- Michael Sweet (b. 1963), American vocalist for the Christian metal band Stryper
- Ossian Sweet (1895-1960), American physician, eponym of the Sweet Trials
- Rachel Sweet (b. 1962), American singer, writer and actress
- Robert Sweet (b. 1960), American drummer of the Christian metal band Stryper
- Henry Sweet (1845-1912), English philologist, phonetician and grammarian
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- Sweat Families of the South by Erbon W. Wise.
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- Magnusson, Magnus. Chambers Biographical Dictionary 5th edition. Edinburgh: W & R Chambers, 1990. Print.
- Shaw, William A. Knights of England A Complete Record from the Earliest Time to the Present Day of the Knights of all the Orders of Chivalry in England, Scotland, Ireland and Knights Bachelors 2 Volumes. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing. Print. (ISBN 080630443X).
- Virkus, Frederick A. Ed. Immigrant Ancestors A List of 2,500 Immigrants to America Before 1750. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1964. Print.
- Hitching, F.K and S. Hitching. References to English Surnames in 1601-1602. Walton On Thames: 1910. Print. (ISBN 0-8063-0181-3).
- MacAulay, Thomas Babington. History of England from the Accession of James the Second 4 volumes. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1879. Print.
- Browning, Charles H. Americans of Royal Descent. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing. Print.
- Crozier, William Armstrong Edition. Crozier's General Armory A Registry of American Families Entitled to Coat Armor. New York: Fox, Duffield, 1904. Print.
- Chadwick, Nora Kershaw and J.X.W.P Corcoran. The Celts. London: Penguin, 1790. Print. (ISBN 0140212116).
- Humble, Richard. The Fall of Saxon England. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1975. Print. (ISBN 0-88029-987-8).
- Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Galveston Texas 1896-1951. National Archives Washington DC. Print.
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The Sweet Family Crest was acquired from the Houseofnames.com archives. The Sweet 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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