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The ancient name of Plowright finds its origins with the ancient Anglo-Saxon culture of Britain. It comes from a name for a person who worked as the ploughwright, a constructor of ploughs. Occupational names frequently were derived from the principal object associated with the activity of the original bearer, such as tools or products. These types of occupational surnames are called metonymic surnames.
The surname Plowright was first found in Cambridgeshire, where they held a family seat from very early times.
This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Plowright research. Another 72 words (5 lines of text) covering the years 1273, 1649, 1662 and 1778 are included under the topic Early Plowright History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
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 Plowright family name include Ploughright, Plowright, Plowrite, Ploughrite, Ploughwright and many more.
More information is included under the topic Early Plowright Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
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 Plowright surname or a spelling variation of the name include :