Origins Available: English,
French
The name Cabot comes from the ancient Norman culture that was established in Britain after the Conquest of 1066. It was a name for a
person with a large head. The surname Cabot was originally derived from the Old French word
cabot and was rendered in medieval documents in the Latin form
Capoceus.Early Origins of the Cabot family
The surname Cabot was first found in Jersey in the Channel Islands where "it is of frequent occurrence. It appears to be derived from the little fish known by us as the 'bullhead,' but on the shores of
Normandy and the Channel Islands, where it abounds, as the chabot or cabot."
[1]CITATION[CLOSE]
Lowe, Mark Anthony, Patronymica Britannica, A Dictionary of Family Names of the United Kingdom. London: John Russel Smith, 1860. Print. The same reference continues on: "Sebastian Cabot, the discoverer of Newfoundland (born at Bristol in 1477) is generally believed to be of Venetian extraction, but there is much reason to believe that his father was a native of Jersey."
[1]CITATION[CLOSE]
Lowe, Mark Anthony, Patronymica Britannica, A Dictionary of Family Names of the United Kingdom. London: John Russel Smith, 1860. Print.
Early History of the Cabot family
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Cabot Spelling Variations
Anglo-Norman names are characterized by a multitude of
spelling variations. When the
Normans became the ruling people of
England in the 11th century, they introduced a new language into a society where the main languages of Old and later Middle English had no definite spelling rules. These languages were more often spoken than written, so they blended freely with one another. Contributing to this mixing of tongues was the fact that medieval scribes spelled words according to sound, ensuring that a person's name would appear differently in nearly every document in which it was recorded. The name has been spelled Cabot, Cabott, Chabot and others.
Early Notables of the Cabot family (pre 1700)
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Migration of the Cabot family to the New World and Oceana
For many English families, the political and religious disarray that plagued their homeland made the frontiers of the New World an attractive prospect. Thousands migrated, aboard cramped disease-ridden ships. They arrived sick, poor, and hungry, but were welcomed in many cases with far greater opportunity than at home in
England. Many of these hardy settlers went on to make important contributions to the emerging nations in which they landed. Among early immigrants bearing the name Cabot or a variant listed above were:
Cabot Settlers in United States in the 15th Century
- Sebastien Cabot who settled in Maine in 1498
Cabot Settlers in United States in the 18th Century
- George Cabot, who landed in New England in 1700 [2]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) - John Cabot, who arrived in New England in 1700 [2]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) - Antoine Cabot, who arrived in Louisiana in 1756
Cabot Settlers in United States in the 19th Century
- Pedro Cabot, who arrived in Puerto Rico in 1816 [2]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) - Stephen Cabot, who arrived in Philadelphia in 1821
- Jose Cabot, who landed in Puerto Rico in 1879 [2]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)
Contemporary Notables of the name Cabot (post 1700)
- Joe Cabot (1921-2016), stage name of Joseph Claude Caputo, an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and musical director
- Samuel Cabot (1752-1853), American merchant, seaman, and politician from Boston, Massachusetts
- Meggin Patricia Cabot (b. 1967), American author of romantic comedies
- Paul Codman Cabot (1898-1994), American investment manager, and treasurer of Harvard University
- Edward Clarke Cabot (1818-1901), American architect and watercolor painter
- John Moors Cabot (1901-1981), U.S. Diplomat, Ambassador to Pakistan, and to Sweden
- Richard Clarke Cabot (1868-1939), American physician, who pioneered clinical hematology
- Godfrey Lowell Cabot (1861-1962), American industrialist and philanthropist
- Lawrence A. Cabot, American Democrat politician, Member of New York State Assembly from Westchester County 2nd District, 1965; Defeated, 1966 [3]CITATION[CLOSE]
The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2015, November 11) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html - John Moors Cabot (1901-1981), American politician, U.S. Ambassador to Sweden, 1954-57; Colombia, 1957; Brazil, 1959-61; Poland, 1962-65 [3]CITATION[CLOSE]
The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2015, November 11) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html - ... (Another 7 notables are available in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.)