Englandlansdowne is a name whose history is connected to the ancient Anglo-Saxon tribes of Britain. The name is derived from when the lansdowne family once lived in the village of Lansdowne in the county of Somerset.
The surname lansdowne was first found in Somerset where they held a family seat from very ancient times, some say well before the Norman Conquest and the arrival of Duke William at Hastings in 1066 A.D.
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Sound 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 lansdowne family name include Lansdowne, Lansdown and others.
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lansdowne migration to the United States +For political, religious, and economic reasons, thousands of English families boarded ships for Ireland, Canada, 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 lansdowne surname or a spelling variation of the name include:
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