Snoad History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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Snoad is an ancient Scottish name that was first used by the Strathclyde-Briton people of the Scottish/English Borderlands. It is a name for someone who lived at the town of Snodgrass in the county of Ayrshire. The name of this place is derived from the Northern Old English words snod, meaning smooth, and grass, meaning grass.

Early Origins of the Snoad family

The surname Snoad was first found in Ayrshire (Gaelic: Siorrachd Inbhir Àir), formerly a county in the southwestern Strathclyde region of Scotland, that today makes up the Council Areas of South, East, and North Ayrshire, where they held a family seat from very ancient times, some say well before the Norman Conquest and the arrival of Duke William at Hastings in 1066 A.D.

Early History of the Snoad family

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Snoad Spelling Variations

Prior to the first dictionaries, scribes spelled words according to sound. This, and the fact that Scottish names were repeatedly translated from Gaelic to English and back, contributed to the enormous number of spelling variations in Scottish names. Snoad has been spelled Snodgrass, Snodgers, Snedgrass, Snadgrass and others.

Early Notables of the Snoad family

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Migration of the Snoad family to Ireland

Some of the Snoad family moved to Ireland, but this topic is not covered in this excerpt.
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Migration of the Snoad family

In such difficult times, the difficulties of raising the money to cross the Atlantic to North America did not seem so large compared to the problems of keeping a family together in Scotland. It was a journey well worth the cost, since it was rewarded with land and freedom the Scots could not find at home. The American War of Independence solidified that freedom, and many of those settlers went on to play important parts in the forging of a great nation. Among them: Andrew and Mrs. Snodgrass arrived in Philadelphia in 1822; James, Robert, Samuel, and William Snodgrass all arrived in Philadelphia between 1840 and 1865..

Contemporary Notables of the name Snoad (post 1700) +

Harold Edward Snoad (b. 1935), British three-time BAFTA Award nominated television producer, writer and director, best known for the television sitcom Keeping Up Appearances