The name Ainger reached
England in the great wave of migration following the
Norman Conquest of 1066. The Ainger family lived in the area of
Angers, Anjou France and is found there in charters in the Latinized form of Angevinus.
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Lowe, Mark Anthony, Patronymica Britannica, A Dictionary of Family Names of the United Kingdom. London: John Russel Smith, 1860. Print.Early Origins of the Ainger family
The surname Ainger was first found in
Essex, where Osmond Angevines held estates in 1086. He and Wido Angevines were ancestors of a family which continued through to at least 1202 in the area. By 1165, some of the family had spread to Oxford,
Surrey, York, and
Norfolk.
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The Norman People and Their Existing Descendants in the British Dominions and the United States Of America. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1975. Print. (ISBN 0-8063-0636-X) Lefuine Anger was listed in
Suffolk in 1095 and Willelmus Angeri was recorded in
Warwickshire in 1197. William
filius Aunger was listed in Cambridge in the
Hundredorum Rolls of 1273.
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Bardsley, C.W, A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames: With Special American Instances. Wiltshire: Heraldry Today, 1901. Print. (ISBN 0-900455-44-6)
Early History of the Ainger family
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Ainger Spelling Variations
Before the advent of the printing press and the first dictionaries, the English language was not standardized. Sound was what guided spelling in the Middle Ages, so one person's name was often recorded under several variations during a single lifetime.
Spelling variations were common, even among the names of the most literate people. Known variations of the Ainger family name include Anger, Angier, Aunger, Angeri, Angear, Ainger and many more.
Early Notables of the Ainger family (pre 1700)
Outstanding amongst the family at this time was Lefuine Anger, a prominent 11th century landholder in Suffolk; John Angier (1605-1677), an English nonconformist minister; and his nephew, Samuel...
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Migration of the Ainger family to Ireland
Some of the Ainger family moved to
Ireland, but this topic is not covered in this excerpt.
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Migration of the Ainger family to the New World and Oceana
To escape the political and religious chaos of this era, thousands of English families began to migrate to the New World in search of land and freedom from religious and political persecution. The passage was expensive and the ships were dark, crowded, and unsafe; however, those who made the voyage safely were encountered opportunities that were not available to them in their homeland. Many of the families that reached the New World at this time went on to make important contributions to the emerging nations of the United States and Canada. Research into various historical records has revealed some of first members of the Ainger family to immigrate North America:
Ainger Settlers in United States in the 17th Century
- Joseph Ainger, who arrived in Massachusetts in 1684 [4]CITATION[CLOSE]
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)
Ainger Settlers in United States in the 19th Century
- Robert Ainger, who landed in Massachusetts in 1838 [4]CITATION[CLOSE]
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)
Contemporary Notables of the name Ainger (post 1700)
- Daniel Brainard Ainger (1844-1913), American Republican politician, Member of Michigan Republican State Central Committee, 1878, 1894; Postmaster at Washington, District of Columbia, 1880-82 [5]CITATION[CLOSE]
The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2016, February 2) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html - Alfred Ainger (1837-1904), English biographer
- Nicholas Richard Ainger (b. 1949), British Labour Member of Parliament