Batelay Surname, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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Batelay is a name whose history is connected to the ancient Anglo-Saxon tribes of Britain. The name is derived from when the Batelay family once lived in the West Riding of Yorkshire, in the parish of Batley.

Batelay Early Origins

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The surname Batelay was first found in Yorkshire, where they held a family seat from ancient times.

Batelay Spelling Variations

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 Batelay family name include Batley, Battelay, Bateley, Batelay, Batlee and many more.

Batelay Early History

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Batelay research. Another 561 words (40 lines of text) covering the years 1086, 1191, 1273, 1372, 1500, 1626, 1672, 1770, 1772, 1770 and 1856 are included under the topic Early Batelay History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Batelay Early Notables (pre 1700)

Another 18 words (1 lines of text) are included under the topic Early Batelay Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

The Great Migration

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 Batelay surname or a spelling variation of the name include: Christopher Batley who sailed to Virginia in 1652 and Jeffry Batley to Barbados in 1679.

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Browning, Charles H. Americans of Royal Descent. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing. Print.
Bede, The Venerable. Historia Ecclesiatica Gentis Anglorum (The Ecclesiastical History Of the English People). Available through Internet Medieval Sourcebook the Fordham University Centre for Medieval Studies. Print.
Colletta, John P. They Came In Ships. Salt Lake City: Ancestry, 1993. Print.
Matthews, John. Matthews' American Armoury and Blue Book. London: John Matthews, 1911. Print.
Innes, Thomas and Learney. The Tartans of the Clans and Families of Scotland 1st Edition. Edinburgh: W & A. K. Johnston Limited, 1938. Print.
Zieber, Eugene. Heraldry in America. Philadelphia: Genealogical Publishing Co. Print.
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The Batelay Family Crest was acquired from the Houseofnames.com archives. The Batelay Family Crest was drawn according to heraldic standards based on published blazons. We generally include the oldest published family crest once associated with each surname.

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