Jackelin History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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Etymology of Jackelin

The name Jackelin reached English shores for the first time with the ancestors of the Jackelin family as they migrated following the Norman Conquest of 1066. The Jackelin family lived in Cambridgeshire. This is a habitation name. These names form one of the broadest categories of surnames that were derived from place-names. They were derived from pre-existing names for towns, villages, parishes, or farmsteads. Other local names are derived from the names of houses, manors, estates, regions, and entire counties

Early Origins of the Jackelin family

Early History of the Jackelin family

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Jackelin Spelling Variations

Anglo-Norman names tend to be marked by an enormous number of spelling variations. This is largely due to the fact that Old and Middle English lacked any spelling rules when Norman French was introduced in the 11th century. The languages of the English courts at that time were French and Latin. These various languages mixed quite freely in the evolving social milieu. The final element of this mix is that medieval scribes spelled words according to their sounds rather than any definite rules, so a name was often spelled in as many different ways as the number of documents it appeared in. The name was spelled Jackling, Jacklin, Jacklings, Jacqueline, Jacoline and many more.

Early Notables of the Jackelin family

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Migration of the Jackelin family

Because of the political and religious discontent in England, families began to migrate abroad in enormous numbers. Faced with persecution and starvation at home, the open frontiers and generally less oppressive social environment of the New World seemed tantalizing indeed to many English people. The trip was difficult, and not all made it unscathed, but many of those who did get to Canada and the United States made important contributions to the young nations in which they settled. Some of the first North American settlers with Jackelin name or one of its variants: Edmund Jackling, who sailed to Boston in 1635; and George Jacklin who was on record in New York in 1862.