Gamadge History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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Early Origins of the Gamadge family

The surname Gamadge was first found in Normandy (French: Normandie), the former Duchy of Normandy, where they held a family seat at Gamaches at Eure in the arrondisement Les Andelys in the canton of Etrepagne. They were a great aristocratic family. The first of this line on record was Godfrey de Gamages, a Norman Baron who held Mansell Gamage in the county of Hereford in England. He had been granted those lands by William, Duke of Normandy, in his conquest of England. In 1184 Matthew and William Gamaches were the Lords who gave a gift to the Abbey of Lyre in a tithe dated that year and executed in Flipou.

Nicolas Gamache, Lord of Islet, settled in Canada in the 17th century. After arriving in Quebec he married Elisabeth-Ursule Cloutier, born in 1660, at Château-Richer on 9th November 1676. The settled together in Quebec until his death at Cap-Saint-Ignace on 30th October 1699. 1

Early History of the Gamadge family

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Gamadge Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Gamaches, Gamages, Gamache, Gamage, Gamich and many more.

Early Notables of the Gamadge family

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Gamadge migration to West Indies +

The British first settled the British West Indies around 1604. They made many attempts but failed in some to establish settlements on the Islands including Saint Lucia and Grenada. By 1627 they had managed to establish settlements on St. Kitts (St. Christopher) and Barbados, but by 1641 the Spanish had moved in and destroyed some of these including those at Providence Island. The British continued to expand the settlements including setting the First Federation in the British West Indies by 1674; some of the islands include Barbados, Bermuda, Cayman Island, Turks and Caicos, Jamaica and Belize then known as British Honduras. By the 1960's many of the islands became independent after the West Indies Federation which existed from 1958 to 1962 failed due to internal political conflicts. After this a number of Eastern Caribbean islands formed a free association. 2

Gamadge Settlers in West Indies in the 17th Century

Stephen and Thomas Gamadge who settled in Barbados in 1685

Sources +

Olivier, Reginald L. Your Ancient Canadian Family Ties. Logan: The Everton Publishers, Inc., P.O. Box 368, 1972. Print
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_West_Indies