The place name, from which the Booke family take their surname arrived in
Scotland with the Viking settlers. The first to use Booke as a name no doubt lived in a place noted for the presence of a
ridge that formed a boundary between two distinct areas. It comes from a variant of the word
boak or
balk, of the same meaning. While historians generally agree upon the aforementioned topographical derivation, most believe that this name actually came from the area called
Boak in the parish of Kirkholm.
Early Origins of the Booke family
The surname Booke was first found in
Berwickshire an ancient county of
Scotland, presently part of the Scottish Borders Council Area, located in the eastern part of the Borders Region of Scotland, where they held a
family seat from ancient times, long before the
Norman Conquest in 1066.
Early History of the Booke family
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Booke Spelling Variations
Few standards of spelling and translation existed in the Middle Ages.
spelling variations, are thus, an extremely common occurrence in records of ancient Scottish names. Over the years, Booke has been spelled Boag, Boig, Book, Boack, Boge, Bogue, Boak, Bouk, Bouck, Bogues, Bogg, Boggs and many more.
Early Notables of the Booke family (pre 1700)
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Migration of the Booke family to Ireland
Some of the Booke family moved to
Ireland, but this topic is not covered in this excerpt.
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Migration of the Booke family to the New World and Oceana
Land and opportunity greeted all those who made it across the Atlantic. These settlers and their children went on to play important roles in the forging of the great nations of the United States and Canada.
Clan societies and other Scottish organizations have preserved much of this heritage for the ancestors of those brave Scots. Immigration and passenger lists have documented the arrival of various people bearing the name Booke to North America:
Booke Settlers in United States in the 17th Century
- Habak Booke, who arrived in Virginia in 1696 [1]CITATION[CLOSE]
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)
Booke Settlers in United States in the 18th Century
- Edward Booke, who landed in Virginia in 1714 [1]CITATION[CLOSE]
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)
Booke Settlers in United States in the 19th Century
- James Booke, who landed in New York in 1800 [1]CITATION[CLOSE]
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)