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Sunde is a name of ancient Anglo-Saxon origin and comes from the family once having lived at Sunderland, a seaport parish in Durham.
The surname Sunde was first found in Yorkshire where they held a family seat from very ancient times, some say they were descended from the ancient Baron Scrope of Bolton, who it was said in 1385 "was the best knight of the whole county at jousts and tournaments."
This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Sunde research. Another 106 words (8 lines of text) covering the years 1627, 1630, 1673, 1750 and 1762 are included under the topic Early Sunde 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 Sunde family name include Sunderland, Sundeland and others.
Distinguished members of the family include
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 Sunde surname or a spelling variation of the name include: