Gentiles History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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Early Origins of the Gentiles family

The surname Gentiles was first found in Calabria and Sicily. Ancient Calabria was in Lecce. Modern Calabria is in the southern extremity of Italy coasting the straits of Messina. The base of the name Gentile, was derived from an original nickname or appellation consists of gentle, and "noble and courteous in the way we feel and behave."

Early History of the Gentiles family

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Gentiles Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Gentile, Gentili, Gentil, Gentilucci, Gentileschi, Gentilini and many more.

Early Notables of the Gentiles family

Orazio Gentileschi (1563-1647), was a painter, born at Pisa in 1563, half-brother of the painter Aurelio Lomi, according to some accounts by a second marriage of their mother; but the account generall...
Artemisia Gentileschi (1590-1642?), was a painter, born at Rome in 1590, and was daughter of Orazio Gentileschi from whom she received her first instructions in painting. 1

Gentiles migration to the United States +

Gentiles Settlers in United States in the 19th Century

Juan Gentiles, aged 33, who landed in Puerto Rico in 1831 2

Sources +

Smith, George (ed), Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1885-1900. Print
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)