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Etymology of CardarWhat does the name Cardar mean? The ancient name of Cardar finds its origins with the ancient Anglo-Saxon culture of Britain. It comes from a name for a person who worked as a carder. The surname denotes the occupation of a carder of wool, an occupation frequented by women during medieval times. 1 Early Origins of the Cardar familyThe surname Cardar was first found in Yorkshire, where the first records of the family appeared in the source Freemen of York. it was there that John le Carder, 7 Edward III and Robert de Coleby, carder, 8 Edward III were listed. A few years later, Margareta Cardar was listed in the Yorkshire Poll Tax Rolls of 1379. 2 Early History of the Cardar familyThis web page shows only a small excerpt of our Cardar research. Another 193 words (14 lines of text) covering the years 1332, 1379, 1500, 1570, 1577, 1578, 1586, 1670, 1677 and 1750 are included under the topic Early Cardar History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. Cardar 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 Cardar family name include Carder, Cardere, Cardar, Cardare, Carderre and others. Early Notables of the Cardar familyPeter Carder, (fl. 1577-1586), a Cornish mariner from "St. Veriun who, according to his own story, a seaman of the Pelican with Drake when she sailed from England on her voyage round the world in November 1677. In October 1578, the ship being then in the Straits of Magellan, Carder was one of eight men in the pinnace who in a gale lost sight of the ship, and, not being able to sight her again, made the mainland and followed alone the shore to St. Julian, living on shellfish and such fish as they could catch. From St. Julian they made...
Another 191 words (14 lines of text) are included under the topic Early Cardar Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. Migration of the Cardar 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. Early immigrants bearing the Cardar surname or a spelling variation of the name include : Richard Carder who arrived in Boston in 1636.
- 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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