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Bleicher Family Crest Download (JPG) Heritage Series - 600 DPI

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Early Origins of the Bleicher family

The surname Bleicher was first found in Somerset where they held a family seat as Lords of the Manor. The Saxon influence of English history diminished after the Battle of Hastings in 1066. The language of the courts was French for the next three centuries and the Norman ambience prevailed. But Saxon surnames survived and the family name was first referenced in the year 1305 when Robert le Blacchere held estates in that shire.

Early History of the Bleicher family

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Bleicher 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 Bleicher family name include Blatcher, Bletcher, Bleacher, Bleaker, Blacher and many more.

Early Notables of the Bleicher family

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Bleicher migration to the United States+

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 Bleicher surname or a spelling variation of the name include:

Bleicher Settlers in United States in the 18th Century
  • Jacob Bleicher, who arrived in Philadelphia in 1736
Bleicher Settlers in United States in the 19th Century
  • A. Bleicher, who settled in Baltimore in 1854
  • Cassimer Bleicher, who settled in Philadelphia in 1860
  • Cassimir Bleicher, who settled in Philadelphia in 1863

Contemporary Notables of the name Bleicher (post 1700)+

  • Hugo Ernst Bleicher (b. 1899), German senior non-commissioned army officer of the Abwehr who published his memoirs in 1954

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