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![Show Contents]() Boalord History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
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The name Boalord is from the ancient Anglo-Saxon tribes of Britain. The name was given to a person who was a person who worked as a bull herder or a keeper of cattle. The surname Boalord is a name for the bull-herd, and is derived from the Old English word Bulluc, which literally means bullherder. [1] Another source notes a similar origin of the name: "bull-ward-either the man who presided over the sport of bull-baiting, or the one who had the care of the 'townbull.' " [2] Early Origins of the Boalord familyThe surname Boalord was first found in Wiltshire where the Hundredorum Rolls of 1273 listed Geoffrey Bolhard as one of the first listings of the family. The same source listed Fulco Bulard as holding lands at that time in Kent. [3] Early History of the Boalord familyThis web page shows only a small excerpt of our Boalord research. Another 219 words (16 lines of text) covering the years 1198, 1273, 1275, 1500, 1524, 1672, 1672, 1806 and 1500 are included under the topic Early Boalord History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. Boalord Spelling VariationsSound 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 Boalord family name include Bullard, Buliard, Bolhard, Bulard, Bulward and others. Early Notables of the Boalord family (pre 1700)Another 33 words (2 lines of text) are included under the topic Early Boalord Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. Migration of the Boalord familyFor 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. Investigation of the origins of family names on the North American continent has revealed that early immigrants bearing the name Boalord or a variant listed above: Robert Bullard who arrived in New England in 1634 and Henry Bullard who sailed to Virginia in 1636. Major-General Robert Lee Bullard, who was born at Youngsboro in Alabama in 1861.
- Smith, Eldson Coles, New Dictionary of American Family Names New York: Harper & Row, 1956. Print
- Lower, Mark Anthony, Patronymica Britannica, A Dictionary of Family Names of the United Kingdom. London: John Russel Smith, 1860. Print.
- Bardsley, C.W, A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames: With Special American Instances. Wiltshire: Heraldry Today, 1901. Print. (ISBN 0-900455-44-6)
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