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![Show Contents]() Comins History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
It is generally believed that this name comes from a Breton personal name, derived from element "cam," meaning "bent," or "crooked;" or perhaps from the herb called "cummin" (cumin). Or the name may have come from the place name Comines, in Flanders, Northern France. 1 "This ancient family claim descent from the great house of Comines in France. They seem to have come into Britain at the Conquest, though they do not appear eo nomine in Domesday. " 2 Early Origins of the Comins familyThe surname Comins was first found in Norfolk, Lincolnshire, and Yorkshire in England, in the 12th and 13th centuries. Robert of Comyn (Comines,) a noble who accompanied William the Conqueror in 1066 and was made Earl of Northumberland. 3 Other early records of the family shown with a myriad of early spellings include: Godwinus filius Cumine in the Pipe Rolls of Norfolk in 1173; Eustachius filius Cumini in the Assize Rolls for Lincolnshire in 1219; Petrus filius Kymine in the Subsidy Rolls for Yorkshire in 1301; Hugh Coumini listed in France in 1157; Walter Cumin in the Pipe Rolls for Wales in 1158; John Comin in Lincolnshire in 1175-1179; and William Cumyn in the Pipe Rolls for Hampshire in 1230. 4 The Hundredorum Rolls of 1273 included: Florentina Comin, Oxfordshire; Peter Comyn, Wiltshire; Stephen Comyng, Essex; and Thomas Comyn, Gloucestershire. 5 Another source notes that Admund le Comyn was listed in Norfolk, 14 Edward II (during the fourteenth year of King Edward III's reign.) 6 Today Commins is a small hamlet in Denbighshire and Commins Coch is a small village in the county of Powys, Wales. Saint Comman of Ross-Commain (fl. 550), was son of Faelchu and "descendant of Fiacha Araidhe, of the family of Rudhraighe, and race of Ir, king of Ulster, A.D. 236." 7 Early History of the Comins familyThis web page shows only a small excerpt of our Comins research. Another 487 words (35 lines of text) covering the years 1124, 1133, 1153, 1289, 1296, 1302, 1306, 1667, 1688, 1690, 1696, 1714, 1729, 1730, 1740, 1747, 1751, 1775, 1833, 1835, 1844, 1849, 1851, 1867, 1870, 1875, 1876 and 1890 are included under the topic Early Comins History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. Comins Spelling VariationsSpelling variations of this family name include: Cumin, Cumins, Cumine, Cummin, Cummins, Cummine, Comings, Comins, Commin and many more. Early Notables of the Comins familyOutstanding amongst the family at this time was Alexander Comyn (d. 1289), Earl of Buchan, a Scotish-Norman nobleman, son of William Comyn and Marjory, Countess of Buchan, the heiress of the last native Scottish Mormaer of Buchan, Fergus...
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Some of the Comins family moved to Ireland, but this topic is not covered in this excerpt.
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Some of the first settlers of this family name were: Comins Settlers in United States in the 17th Century- Edward Comins, aged 28, who landed in Virginia in 1635 aboard the ship "Assurance" 8
- Edward Comins, who arrived in Maryland in 1640 8
- Isaac Comins, who arrived in Watertown, Massachusetts in 1642 8
- Matthew Comins, who arrived in Boston, Massachusetts in 1654 8
Comins Settlers in United States in the 18th Century- Richard Comins, who landed in Virginia in 1705 8
Comins Settlers in United States in the 19th Century- Lorenzo Comins, who landed in New Orleans, La in 1813 8
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Emigration to New Zealand followed in the footsteps of the European explorers, such as Captain Cook (1769-70): first came sealers, whalers, missionaries, and traders. By 1838, the British New Zealand Company had begun buying land from the Maori tribes, and selling it to settlers, and, after the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840, many British families set out on the arduous six month journey from Britain to Aotearoa to start a new life. Early immigrants include: Comins Settlers in New Zealand in the 19th Century- Richard B. Comins, who arrived in Auckland, New Zealand aboard the ship "Bombay" in 1863 9
| Contemporary Notables of the name Comins (post 1700) | + |
- Daniel Comins, American chemist from North Carolina State University who identified Comins' reagent, a triflyl compound in 1992
- Harry Mason Comins (1882-1962), American politician, Mayor of Flint, Michigan (1938-1940)
- Linus Bacon Comins (1817-1892), American politician, 4th Mayor of Roxbury, Massachusetts (1854), Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts (1855-1859)
- A. H. Comins, American Democratic Party politician, Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Ohio, 1876 10
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- Bardsley, C.W, A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames: With Special American Instances. Wiltshire: Heraldry Today, 1901. Print. (ISBN 0-900455-44-6)
- Rye, Walter, A History of Norfolk. London: Elliot Stock, 62, Paternoster Row, 1885. Print
- Smith, George (ed), Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1885-1900. Print
- Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
- New Zealand Yesteryears Passenger Lists 1800 to 1900 (Retrieved 7th November 2010). Retrieved from http://www.yesteryears.co.nz/shipping/passlist.html
- The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2016, January 12) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html
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