The Jagard family name arose the word "jagger," Yorkshire dialect from the Middle English word "jag," meaning a "carrier," or "carter." 1 Jagard may have been an occupational name for a pedlar and began when someone in that family worked as a person who tends draught horses.
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Early Origins of the Jagard family
The surname Jagard was first found in Yorkshire where Thomas Jager and John Jagher were recorded in the Yorkshire Poll Tax Rolls of 1379. A few years later, Katerina Jeggar was listed in Yorkshire in 1480. 1
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Early History of the Jagard family
This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Jagard research. Another 61 words (4 lines of text) covering the years 1290, 1568 and 1623 are included under the topic Early Jagard History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
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Jagard 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 Jagard family name include Jagger, Jaggers and others.
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Early Notables of the Jagard family
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Migration of the Jagard 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. Early immigrants bearing the Jagard surname or a spelling variation of the name include : John Jagger settled in New England in 1770; William, Charles, George, John and Thomas Jagger settled in Philadelphia between 1840 and 1860; Jeremy Jagger settled in Wethersfield in 1637.
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