Viking settlers in ancient
Scotland were the ancestors of the first people to use the name Orgison. It comes from the name
Aassi, which is a Old Norse form of the Old English
personal name Oswald, which means
divine power. The original spelling of the surname Orgison was
Aassiesen, and this form is preserved in the Shetlands; many diminutive forms of the surname also exist. The surname was recorded in the
Landnamabok (the Icelandic Book of settlement), as
Asi.Early Origins of the Orgison family
The surname Orgison was first found in the Shetlands, where it is a form of Oswald.
Early History of the Orgison family
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Orgison Spelling Variations
Translation and spelling were non-standardized practices in the Middle Ages, so scribes had only their ears to rely on. This was a practice of extremely limited efficiency, and
spelling variations in names, even within a single document, were the result. Over the years, Orgison has appeared Aassie, Assi, Assie, Aasie, Hoseason, Hosison and many more.
Early Notables of the Orgison family (pre 1700)
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Migration of the Orgison family to Ireland
Some of the Orgison family moved to
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Migration of the Orgison family to the New World and Oceana
The fertile east coast of what would become US and Canada was soon dotted with the farms of Scottish settlers. Some of them remained faithful to the crown and called themselves United Empire Loyalists, while others had the chance to pay back their old oppressors in the American
War of Independence. That brave spirit lives on today in the highland games that dot North America in the summer. Passenger and immigration lists indicate that members of the Orgison family came to North America quite early: William Hoseason, and family who migrated directly from the Shetlands about 1730 to Jamaica. This family eventually married into the distinguished Bruce family of Jamaica..