Munnion History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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Etymology of Munnion

The original Gaelic form of Munnion was Ó Mainnin.

Early Origins of the Munnion family

Early History of the Munnion family

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Munnion Spelling Variations

The spelling of names in Ireland during the Middle Ages was rarely consistent. This inconsistency was due to the scribes and church officials' attempts to record orally defined names in writing. The common practice of recording names as they sounded resulted in spelling variations such as Mannion, O'Mannin, O'Mannion, Mannyan, Mennon and many more.

Early Notables of the Munnion family

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Migration of the Munnion family

In the late 18th century, Irish families began emigrating to North America in the search of a plot of land to call their own. This pattern of emigration grew steadily until the 1840s when the Great Potato Famine of the 1840s cause thousands of Irish to flee the death and disease that accompanied the disaster. Those that made it alive to the shores of the United States and British North America (later to become Canada) were, however, instrumental in the development of those two powerful nations. Many of these Irish immigrants proudly bore the name of Munnion: Mary Mannon, who settled in New England in 1721; as well as Edward, James, John and Patrick Manion, who all arrived in Philadelphia between 1840 and 1860..