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Tyson Family Crest and Name History

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

The name Tyson is rooted in the ancient Norman culture that arrived in England after the Norman Conquest of England in 1066. It was a name for someone who was a fiesty or hot-tempered person. The name is a metaphor derived from the Old French word tison meaning fire-brand. 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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Tyson Early Origins

Anglo-Norman names are characterized by a multitude of spelling variations. When the Normans became the ruling people of England in the 11th century, they introduced a new language into a society where the main languages of Old and later Middle English had no definite spelling rules. These languages were more often spoken than written, so they blended freely with one another. Contributing to this mixing of tongues was the fact that medieval scribes spelled words according to sound, ensuring that a person's name would appear differently in nearly every document in which it was recorded. The name has been spelled Tyson, Tesson, Tewson, Tiuson, Tison, Dyson and many more.

First found in Northumberland where they held a family seat from early times, where the name originally was Tesson, one of the most powerful families in Normandy seated at Angouleme. Their history is French more than Viking and they distinguished themselves against the Saracens in 725. They were later seated at Anjou and Raoul Tesson the first Lord of Cingueleiz led 120 knights at Val-Des-Dunes in 1047. Gilbert Tesson, his brother, obtained the barony of Alnwick from King Edward the Confessor, England's Saxon King, and was killed at the Battle of Hastings, fighting on the Saxon side.

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Tyson Early History

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Tyson research. Another 198 words(14 lines of text) covering the year 1309 is included under the topic Early Tyson History in all our PDF Extended History products.

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Tyson Early Notables

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The Great Migration

For many English families, the political and religious disarray that plagued their homeland made the frontiers of the New World an attractive prospect. Thousands migrated, aboard cramped disease-ridden ships. They arrived sick, poor, and hungry, but were welcomed in many cases with far greater opportunity than at home in England. Many of these hardy settlers went on to make important contributions to the emerging nations in which they landed. Among early immigrants bearing the name Tyson or a variant listed above were:

Tyson Settlers in the United States in the 17th Century

George Tyson settled in Virginia in 1642

George Tyson, who arrived in Virginia in 1642

Thomas Tyson, who arrived in Maryland in 1661

Reynier Tyson, who landed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1683

Leonard Tyson, who landed in Pennsylvania in 1683

Tyson Settlers in the United States in the 18th Century

Lewis Tyson who settled in Maryland in 1719

Tyson Settlers in the United States in the 19th Century

John Tyson, aged 23, arrived in Rhode Island in 1812

Henry Tyson, aged 37, landed in New York in 1812

Matthew Tyson, who arrived in New York, NY in 1832

William Tyson, who landed in New York in 1835

J R Tyson, who landed in San Francisco, California in 1850

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Contemporary Notables of the name Tyson

June Tyson (1936-1992), American jazz singer
Laura D'Andrea Tyson (b. 1947), American economist and presidential adviser
Lawrence Tyson (1861-1929), American politician
Michael Gerard "Mike" Tyson (b. 1966), American former world heavyweight boxing champion, inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame and the World Boxing Hall of Fame
Neil deGrasse Tyson (b. 1958), award-winning American astrophysicist
Ron Tyson (b. 1948), American tenor /falsetto singer and songwriter
Nathan Tyson (b. 1982), professional English football player
Frank Holmes Tyson (b. 1930), English cricket player
Ian Tyson CM, AOE (b. 1933), Canadian singer-songwriter, best known for his song "Four Strong Winds"
Sylvia Tyson CM (b. 1940), Canadian musician, performer, singer-songwriter and broadcaster

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References

Papworth, J.W and A.W Morant. Ordinary of British Armorials. London: T.Richards, 1874. Print.
Best, Hugh. Debrett's Texas Peerage. New York: Coward-McCann, 1983. Print. (ISBN 069811244X).
Shirley, Evelyn Philip. Noble and Gentle Men of England Or Notes Touching The Arms and Descendants of the Ancient Knightley and Gentle Houses of England Arranged in their Respective Counties 3rd Edition. Westminster: John Bowyer Nichols and Sons, 1866. Print.
The Norman People and Their Existing Descendants in the British Dominions and the United States Of America. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1975. Print. (ISBN 0-8063-0636-X).
Marcharn, Frederick George. A Constitutional History of Modern England 1485 to the Present. London: Harper and Brothers, 1960. Print.
Chadwick, Nora Kershaw and J.X.W.P Corcoran. The Celts. London: Penguin, 1790. Print. (ISBN 0140212116).
Virkus, Frederick A. Ed. Immigrant Ancestors A List of 2,500 Immigrants to America Before 1750. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1964. Print.
Skordas, Guest. Ed. The Early Settlers of Maryland an Index to Names or Immigrants Complied from Records of Land Patents 1633-1680 in the Hall of Records Annapolis, Maryland. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1968. Print.
Leeson, Francis L. Dictionary of British Peerages. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1986. Print. (ISBN 0-8063-1121-5).
Burke, Sir Bernard. Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry: Including American Families with British Ancestry. (2 Volumes). London: Burke Publishing, 1939. Print.
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The Tyson Family Crest was acquired from the Houseofnames.com archives. The Tyson 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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