Blage History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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Early Origins of the Blage family

Early History of the Blage family

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Blage research. Another 72 words (5 lines of text) covering the years 1000, 1450, 1512, 1515, 1516, 1517, 1518, 1520, 1522, 1545, 1546, 1547, 1551, 1592, 1611, 1613, 1642 and 1660 are included under the topic Early Blage History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Blage Spelling Variations

Sound was what guided spelling in the essentially pre-literate Middle Ages, so one person's name was often recorded under several variations during a single lifetime. Also, before the advent of the printing press and the first dictionaries, the English language was not standardized. Therefore, spelling variations were common, even among the names of the most literate people. Known variations of the Blage family name include Blagg, Blague, Blagge, Blage, Blag, Blaggue and others.

Early Notables of the Blage family

Distinguished members of the family include

• Robert Blage or Blagge (d. 1522?), an English judge, who was of a Suffolk family, and was son of Stephen Blagge of Broke Montague in Somersetshire. "He was a commissioner of sewers in Cambridgeshire a...

Migration of the Blage family

For political, religious, and economic reasons, thousands of English families boarded ships for Ireland, the Canadas, the America colonies, and many of smaller tropical colonies in the hope of finding better lives abroad. Although the passage on the cramped, dank ships caused many to arrive in the New World diseased and starving, those families that survived the trip often went on to make valuable contributions to those new societies to which they arrived. Early immigrants bearing the Blage surname or a spelling variation of the name include : David Blagg who settled in Virginia in 1654; John Blagg settled in Augusta county in Virginia in 1760.