Cordonlay is a name of ancient Anglo-Saxon origin and comes from the family once having lived in Yorkshire, in a town called either Cordonley or Cotingley. It was rendered in the Domesday Book as Cotingeley, so the name of the now vanished town was probably Cotingley, but scholars disagree on this. The place-name is derived from two sources; Coting was an old English personal name, and ley was a suffix that meant field or meadow. The name as a whole meant "Coting's field."
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Early Origins of the Cordonlay family
The surname Cordonlay was first found in Yorkshire, where they seated from the Middle Ages.
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Early History of the Cordonlay family
This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Cordonlay research. Another 36 words (3 lines of text) covering the years 1379, 1795 and 1803 are included under the topic Early Cordonlay History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
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Cordonlay 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 Cordonlay family name include Cordingley, Cordonlay and others.
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Early Notables of the Cordonlay family
Notables of the family at this time include
Ricardus de Cordonlay, a prominent landholder in 14th century Yorkshire
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Migration of the Cordonlay family
For political, religious, and economic reasons, thousands of English families boarded ships for Ireland, Canada, 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 Cordonlay surname or a spelling variation of the name include: David Cordingly, and his family who arrived in Canada from New York in 1817; Thos. Cordingly, who was on record in Toronto, Canada in 1829; William Cordingly, who arrived in New York in 1848.
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