Brockenshaw History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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Ireland

Early Origins of the Brockenshaw family

The surname Brockenshaw was first found in Lanarkshire (Gaelic: Siorrachd Lannraig) a former county in the central Strathclyde region of Scotland, now divided into the Council Areas of North Lanarkshire, South Lanarkshire, and the City of Glasgow, where they held a family seat from very ancient times, some say well before the Norman Conquest and the arrival of Duke William at Hastings in 1066 A.D.

Early History of the Brockenshaw family

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Brockenshaw Spelling Variations

Scribes in Medieval Scotland spelled names by sound rather than any set of rules, so an enormous number of spelling variations exist in names of that era. Brockenshaw has been spelled Birkenshaw, Birkinshaw, Birkshaw, Burdenshaw and others.

Early Notables of the Brockenshaw family

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Migration of the Brockenshaw family to Ireland

Some of the Brockenshaw family moved to Ireland, but this topic is not covered in this excerpt. More information about their life in Ireland is included in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Brockenshaw migration to New Zealand +

Emigration to New Zealand followed in the footsteps of the European explorers, such as Captain Cook (1769-70): first came sealers, whalers, missionaries, and traders. By 1838, the British New Zealand Company had begun buying land from the Maori tribes, and selling it to settlers, and, after the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840, many British families set out on the arduous six month journey from Britain to Aotearoa to start a new life. Early immigrants include:

Miss Mary A. Brockenshaw, (b. 1851), aged 28, Cornish settler departing on 12th November 1879 aboard the ship "Canterbury" going to Bluff or Otago, New Zealand arriving in port on 21st January 1880 1
Miss Louisa Brockenshaw, (b. 1876), aged 3, Cornish settler departing on 12th November 1879 aboard the ship "Canterbury" going to Bluff or Otago, New Zealand arriving in port on 21st January 1880 1
Mr. James H. Brockenshaw, (b. 1872), aged 7, Cornish settler departing on 12th November 1879 aboard the ship "Canterbury" going to Bluff or Otago, New Zealand arriving in port on 21st January 1880 1

Sources +

Cornwall Online Parish Clerks. (Retrieved 2018, April 30). Emigrants to other ports, 1872 - 84 [PDF]. Retrieved from http://www.opc-cornwall.org/Resc/pdfs/new_zealand_assisted.pdf