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Where did the Scottish Williamson family come from? What is the Scottish Williamson family crest and coat of arms? When did the Williamson family first arrive in the United States? Where did the various branches of the family go? What is the Williamson family history?
The name Williamson was first used by the people of an ancient Scottish tribe called the Strathclyde Britons. It is derived from the Norman personal name William. The name literally was derived from the patronymic expression son of William.
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Before the printing press standardized spelling in the last few hundred years, no general rules existed in the English language. Spelling variations in Scottish names from the Middle Ages are common even within a single document. Williamson has been spelled Williamson, Wiliamson, Williamsone and others.First found in Peebles, where this predominantly Scottish Clan held a family seat anciently, although their interests straddled the English Scottish border and they held territories as far south as Keswick in Cumberland.
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For Scottish immigrants, the great expense of travel to North America did not seem such a problem in those unstable times. Acres of land awaited them and many got the chance to fight for their freedom in the American War of Independence. These Scots and their ancestors went on to play important roles in the forging of the great nations of the United States and Canada. Among them:
Williamson Settlers in the United States in the 17th Century
- Michael Williamson, who settled in Massachusetts in 1631
- Maxwell Williamson, who settled in Virginia in 1638
- David Williamson landed in Virginia in 1638
- Anthony Williamson, who landed in Virginia in 1642
- Thomas Williamson, who arrived in Virginia in 1649
Williamson Settlers in the United States in the 18th Century
- Barbery Williamson, who arrived in Virginia in 1705
- Andrew Williamson, who landed in Brunswick, NC in 1775
Williamson Settlers in the United States in the 19th Century
- Adam Williamson, aged 22, landed in New York in 1812
- Alexander Williamson, who landed in New York in 1855
- Ann Williamson, aged 17, arrived in New York in 1864
- David Williamson, aged 22, arrived in New York in 1864
- Ellen Williamson, aged 25, landed in New York in 1864
Williamson Settlers in the United States in the 20th Century
- Andreas Christian Williamson, who arrived in Alabama in 1917
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- Hugh Williamson (1735-1819), American political leader, physician, scientist who represented North Carolina at the Constitutional Convention
- John Williamson (1826-1885), Scottish-born American landscape artist
- Kevin Williamson (b. 1965), American film and television writer, producer and director
- Scott Ryan Williamson (b. 1976), American professional baseball player
- Oliver Eaton Williamson Ph.D. (b. 1932), prominent author in the area of transaction cost economics and co-winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize for Economics
- Michael T. "Mykelti" Williamson (b. 1960), American actor
- Nicol Williamson (b. 1938), Scottish-born British stage actor
- James Williamson (b. 1806), Scottish-born Canadian educator, Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Queen's College
- James Cassius Williamson (1845-1913), Australian theatrical manager
- Alexander William Williamson (1824-1904), English chemist best known today for the Williamson ether synthesis
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- Crozier, William Armstrong Edition. Crozier's General Armory A Registry of American Families Entitled to Coat Armor. New York: Fox, Duffield, 1904. Print.
- Papworth, J.W and A.W Morant. Ordinary of British Armorials. London: T.Richards, 1874. Print.
- Chadwick, Nora Kershaw and J.X.W.P Corcoran. The Celts. London: Penguin, 1970. Print. (ISBN 0140212116).
- Robb H. Amanda and Andrew Chesler. Encyclopedia of American Family Names. New York: Haper Collins, 1995. Print. (ISBN 0-06-270075-8).
- Bell, Robert. The Book of Ulster Surnames. Belfast: Blackstaff, 1988. Print. (ISBN 10-0856404160).
- Black, George F. The Surnames of Scotland Their Origin, Meaning and History. New York: New York Public Library, 1946. Print. (ISBN 0-87104-172-3).
- Samuelsen, W. David. New York City Passenger List Manifests Index 1820 - 1824. North Salt Lake, Utah: Accelerated Indexing Systems International, 1986. Print.
- Weis, Frederick Lewis, Walter Lee Sheppard and David Faris. Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists Who Came to New England Between 1623 and 1650 7th Edition. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1992. Print. (ISBN 0806313676).
- Barrow, G.W.S Ed. The Charters of David I The Written Acts of David I King of Scots, 1124-53 and of His Son Henry, Earl of Northumerland, 1139-52. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1999. Print.
- Le Patourel, John. The Norman Empire. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976. Print. (ISBN 0-19-822525-3).
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