The history of the name Heritadge goes back those Anglo-Saxon tribes that once ruled over Britain. Such a name was given to a person who held or occupied land inherited by an ancestor instead of acquiring it by means of the Feudal System. The surname Heritadge is derived from the Old English word heritage, which in turn comes from the Old French words eritage and heritage. These words are derived from the Late Latin word heritagium, which comes from the word heres, which means heir.
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Early Origins of the Heritadge family
The surname Heritadge was first found in Oxfordshire, where they held a family seat from very early times.
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Early History of the Heritadge family
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Heritadge 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 Heritadge family name include Herytage, Heritage, Eritage, Erytage and others.
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Early Notables of the Heritadge family
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Migration of the Heritadge 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. Investigation of the origins of family names on the North American continent has revealed that early immigrants bearing the name Heritadge or a variant listed above: Roger Eritage, who sailed to Barbados in 1635; Richard Heritage to New Jersey in 1664; W. Heritage to San Francisco, Cal. in 1850 and Mary Houlihan Heritage to Nova Scotia in 1838..
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