Bonwach Surname, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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The Bonwach name has descended through the generations from the ancient Anglo-Saxon culture. Their name comes from having lived in the region of Bonwick, in Yorkshire.

Bonwach Early Origins

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

Bonwach Spelling Variations

Only recently has spelling become standardized in the English language. As the English language evolved in the Middle Ages, the spelling of names changed also. The name Bonwach has undergone many spelling variations, including Bonwick, Bonnick and others.

Bonwach Early History

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Bonwach Early Notables (pre 1700)

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The Great Migration

To escape the unstable social climate in England of this time, many families boarded ships for the New World with the hope of finding land, opportunity, and greater religious and political freedom. Although the voyages were expensive, crowded, and difficult, those families that arrived often found greater opportunities and freedoms than they could have experienced at home. Many of those families went on to make significant contributions to the rapidly developing colonies in which they settled. Early North American records indicate many people bearing the name Bonwach were among those contributors: Thomas Bonewick, settled in Virginia in 1790.

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Colletta, John P. They Came In Ships. Salt Lake City: Ancestry, 1993. Print.
Bowman, George Ernest. The Mayflower Reader A Selection of Articales from The Mayflower Descendent. 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.
Thirsk, Joan. The Agrarian History of England and Wales. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 7 Volumes. Print.
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The Bonwach Family Crest was acquired from the Houseofnames.com archives. The Bonwach 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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