Show ContentsAug History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

The history of the Aug family name begins after the Norman Conquest of 1066. They lived in Oxfordshire.

Early Origins of the Aug family

The surname Aug was first found in Auge, as De Augo from Crevecoeur, Calvados, in Normandy. The family were bailiffs of the town of Auge. Henry, Duke of Normandy issued a writ insisting that the men of their ilk would not be allowed to attend the fair at Crevecoeur.

Early History of the Aug family

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Aug Spelling Variations

Anglo-Norman names are characterized by a multitude of spelling variations. When the Normans became the ruling people of England in the 11th century, they introduced a new language into a society where the main languages of Old and later Middle English had no definite spelling rules. These languages were more often spoken than written, so they blended freely with one another. Contributing to this mixing of tongues was the fact that medieval scribes spelled words according to sound, ensuring that a person's name would appear differently in nearly every document in which it was recorded. The name has been spelled Agg, Agge, Aug, Auge and others.

Early Notables of the Aug family

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United States Aug migration to the United States +

For many English families, the political and religious disarray that plagued their homeland made the frontiers of the New World an attractive prospect. Thousands migrated, aboard cramped disease-ridden ships. They arrived sick, poor, and hungry, but were welcomed in many cases with far greater opportunity than at home in England. Many of these hardy settlers went on to make important contributions to the emerging nations in which they landed. Among early immigrants bearing the name Aug or a variant listed above were:

Aug Settlers in United States in the 19th Century
  • Miss Mary Ann Aug, (b. 1822), aged 10, Cornish settler departing from Plymouth aboard the ship "Andromeda" arriving in the United States on 10th May 1832 1
  • Ernst Aug, who arrived in Texas in 1845 2
  • Frederick Aug, who landed in Maryland in 1850 2

Contemporary Notables of the name Aug (post 1700) +

  • Joseph Aug, American Democratic Party politician, Delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1948 3


  1. Cornwall Online Parish Clerks. (Retrieved 2018, April 30). Emigrants to New York 1820 - 1891 [PDF]. Retrieved from http://www.opc-cornwall.org/Resc/pdfs/emigration_new_york_1820_1891.pdf
  2. 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)
  3. The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2015, October 28) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html


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