Jancy History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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England

Early Origins of the Jancy family

The surname Jancy was first found in Lincolnshire, where they held a family seat from very early times.

Early History of the Jancy family

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Jancy 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 Jauncey, Jauncy, Jancey and others.

Early Notables of the Jancy family

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Jancy migration to the United States +

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 Jancy or a variant listed above were:

Jancy Settlers in United States in the 17th Century

John Jancy, who arrived in Virginia in 1666 1

Jancy Settlers in United States in the 19th Century

William Jancy, who landed in Allegany (Allegheny) County, Pennsylvania in 1842 1

Sources +

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)