| ![Show Contents]() Ragon History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
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 England France Early Origins of the Ragon familyThe surname Ragon was first found in Bedfordshire (Old English: Bedanfordscir), located in Southeast-central England, formerly part of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia, where they held a family seat as Lords of the Manor. The Saxon influence of English history diminished after the Battle of Hastings in 1066. The language of the courts was French for the next three centuries and the Norman ambience prevailed. But Saxon surnames survived and the family name was first referenced in the 13th century. Early History of the Ragon familyThis web page shows only a small excerpt of our Ragon research. Another 135 words (10 lines of text) covering the years 1455, 1487, 1510 and 1600 are included under the topic Early Ragon History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. Ragon Spelling VariationsSound 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 Ragon family name include Ragon, Ragen, Rakon, Ragan and others. Early Notables of the Ragon familyDistinguished members of the family include - the Ragon family of Bedfordshire
Ragon RankingIn France, the name Ragon is the 6,167th most popular surname with an estimated 1,000 - 1,500 people with that name. 1
 Ragon migration to the United States | + |
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 Ragon surname or a spelling variation of the name include:
Ragon Settlers in United States in the 19th Century- Cornelius Ragon, who settled in New York, NY in 1838
- William Ragon, who landed in Arkansas in 1884 2
| Ragon migration to Canada | + |
Some of the first settlers of this family name were: Ragon Settlers in Canada in the 17th Century- Mr. Jacques Ragon, French labourer travelling to Canada to work for Guillaume Couillard, arriving on 10th April 1643 3
| Contemporary Notables of the name Ragon (post 1700) | + |
- Phillip Terrence "Terry" Ragon, American entrepreneur and philanthropist who founded InterSystems
- Heartsill Ragon (1885-1940), American politician, U.S. Representative from Arkansas
- Hiram Heartsill Ragon (1917-1975), American Democratic Party politician, Alternate Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Arkansas, 1944 4
- H. Heartsill Ragon (1885-1940), American Democratic Party politician, Member of Arkansas State House of Representatives, 1911-13; U.S. Representative from Arkansas 5th District, 1923-33; Resigned 1933 4
- Charles Ragon (1833-1914), Polytechnician and a French artillery colonel
- http://www.journaldesfemmes.com/nom-de-famille/nom/
- 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)
- Debien, Gabriel. Liste Des Engagés Pour Le Canada Au XVIIe Siècle. Vol. 6, Laval University, 1952. (Retreived 24th May 2018). Retrieved from https://lebloguedeguyperron.wordpress.com/2016/06/30/130-liste-des-contrats-dengagement-pour-la-nouvelle-france-releves-a-la-rochelle-entre-1634-et-1679/
- The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2015, October 26) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html
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