In ancient Scotland, Appleyate was a Strathclyde-Briton name for someone who lived in Dumfries. The Appleyate surname comes from the northern Middle English applegarth, meaning "apple orchard." The name may have been originally used for someone who lived near an orchard, or it may have been a habitational name from a place so named, of which there are examples in Cumbria and North and East Yorkshire, and in the county of Dumfries.
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Early Origins of the Appleyate family
The surname Appleyate was first found in Dumfriesshire (Gaelic: Siorrachd Dhùn Phris), a Southern area, bordering on England that today forms part of the Dumfries and Galloway Council Area, where they held a family seat at Applegarth, near Lockerbie.
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Early History of the Appleyate family
This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Appleyate research. Another 121 words (9 lines of text) covering the years 1190, 1284 and 1340 are included under the topic Early Appleyate History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
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Appleyate Spelling Variations
Prior to the first dictionaries, scribes spelled words according to sound. This, and the fact that Scottish names were repeatedly translated from Gaelic to English and back, contributed to the enormous number of spelling variations in Scottish names. Appleyate has been spelled Aplegath, Aplegarth, Applegarth, Applegate and others.
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Early Notables of the Appleyate family
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Migration of the Appleyate family
In such difficult times, the difficulties of raising the money to cross the Atlantic to North America did not seem so large compared to the problems of keeping a family together in Scotland. It was a journey well worth the cost, since it was rewarded with land and freedom the Scots could not find at home. The American War of Independence solidified that freedom, and many of those settlers went on to play important parts in the forging of a great nation. Among them: Clement Applegate who settled in Virginia in 1654; John Applegate settled in San Francisco, California, in 1850; John Appleget arrived in San Francisco in 1852..
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