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![Show Contents]() Kender History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
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 England
Kender is one of the many new names that came to England following the Norman Conquest of 1066. The Kender family lived in Kinder, Derbyshire. The surname of Kinder was a local name which means of Kinder, a hamlet in the parish of Glossop, Derbyshire, near Chapel-en-le-Frith. Early Origins of the Kender familyThe surname Kender was first found in Derbyshire where they held a family seat as Lords of the Manor of Kinder, a small hamlet originally called Chendre before the taking of the Domesday Book census, a survey initiated by Duke William of Normandy in 1086 after his defeat of the English at Hastings in 1066. Kinder is a hamlet near the Kinder Scout, the highest and best known mountain in the Peak District of Derbyshire, and is often called 'The Peak'. At the time of the taking of the Domesday Book, 1 the hamlet of Kinder was "King's Land." Early History of the Kender familyThis web page shows only a small excerpt of our Kender research. Another 88 words (6 lines of text) covering the year 1597 is included under the topic Early Kender History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. Kender Spelling VariationsAnglo-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 Kinder, Kynder, Chinder, Chendre, Kender, Kyender and others. Early Notables of the Kender familyAnother 32 words (2 lines of text) are included under the topic Early Kender Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
 Kender 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 Kender or a variant listed above were:
Kender Settlers in United States in the 18th Century- Peter Kender, who landed in Pennsylvania in 1737 2
- Caspar Kender, who arrived in Pennsylvania in 1738 2
- Bastian Kender who settled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1752
- Bastian Kender, who landed in Pennsylvania in 1752 2
- Williams, Dr Ann. And G.H. Martin, Eds., Domesday Book A Complete Translation. London: Penguin, 1992. Print. (ISBN 0-141-00523-8)
- 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)
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Kender migration to the United States 
