Cargin is a name that first reached England following the Norman Conquest in 1066. It is a name for a person who was known as the carman, or one who rented or let out vehicles. Often carmen were known as hostilers.
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Early Origins of the Cargin family
The surname Cargin was first found in Cumberland in the lands of Carman where they held a family seat from very ancient times before 1100 A.D.
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Early History of the Cargin family
This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Cargin research. Another 158 words (11 lines of text) covering the years 1066, 1086 and 1300 are included under the topic Early Cargin History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
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Cargin Spelling Variations
Anglo-Norman names tend to be marked by an enormous number of spelling variations. This is largely due to the fact that Old and Middle English lacked any spelling rules when Norman French was introduced in the 11th century. The languages of the English courts at that time were French and Latin. These various languages mixed quite freely in the evolving social milieu. The final element of this mix is that medieval scribes spelled words according to their sounds rather than any definite rules, so a name was often spelled in as many different ways as the number of documents it appeared in. The name was spelled Carman, Carmen, Carmine, Carmyn and others.
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Early Notables of the Cargin family
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Migration of the Cargin family
Because of the political and religious discontent in England, families began to migrate abroad in enormous numbers. Faced with persecution and starvation at home, the open frontiers and generally less oppressive social environment of the New World seemed tantalizing indeed to many English people. The trip was difficult, and not all made it unscathed, but many of those who did get to Canada and the United States made important contributions to the young nations in which they settled. Some of the first North American settlers with Cargin name or one of its variants: Henry Carman aged 23; who settled in Virginia in 1620; the same year that the "Mayflower" arrived to the north in Massachusetts; John Carman settled in Boston Massachusetts in 1621 the year following the ".
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