Buddy History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms 

To escape the unstable social climate in England of this time, many families boarded ships for the New World with the hope of finding land, opportunity, and greater religious and political freedom. Although the voyages were expensive, crowded, and difficult, those families that arrived often found greater opportunities and freedoms than they could have experienced at home. Many of those families went on to make significant contributions to the rapidly developing colonies in which they settled. Early North American records indicate many people bearing the name Buddy were among those contributors:

Buddy Settlers in United States in the 18th Century

• Nicholas Buddy, who arrived in New England in 1730 1

• George J. Buddy, American Democratic Party politician, Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1972 2
• Mark Buddy Farnham (b. 1987), American football wide receiver
• Lee Buddy Archer, American fighter pilot and flying ace in the U.S. Army Air Forces, during World War II, credited with 9 aerial victories
• Buddy Hackett (1924-2003), born Leonard Hacker, American comedian, actor, author and composer, best remembered for his roles as Marcellus Washburn in The Music Man (1962), Benjy Benjamin in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), Tennessee Steinmetz in The Love Bug (1968), and the voice of Scuttle in The Little Mermaid (1989).
• Buddy Arrington (1938-2022), American NASCAR Winston Cup Series driver
• Buddy Merrill (1936-2021), born Leslie Merrill Behunin, Jr., an American guitar player and steel guitar player, best known as a regular on The Lawrence Welk Show
• Buddy Cage (1946-2020), Canadian pedal steel guitarist, from Toronto, Ontario best known as a member of the New Riders of the Purple Sage
• Buddy Holly (1936-1959), stage name of Charles Hardin Holley, American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of Rock and Roll, killed in a plane crash with Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper, famously referred to as "The Day the Music Died" in Don McLean's 1971 song "American Pie"
• Buddy Whittington (b. 1956), American guitarist
• Buddy Bolding, American former coach of the Longwood Lancers baseball team (1978-2013)

• Family Crests: the Heraldic Artist
• Family Crests: Timeline
• Family Crests: Elements
• Family Crests and Genealogy: how they relate
• Anglo-Saxon
• Spelling variations
• Family seat
• Ireland
• England