Vilicombe History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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England

Early Origins of the Vilicombe family

The surname Vilicombe was first found in Hampshire where they held a family seat from very ancient times, before and after the Norman Conquest in 1066.

Early History of the Vilicombe family

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Vilicombe Spelling Variations

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 Vilicombe family name include Vincombe, Vinicombe, Vinnicombe, Vinncombe and others.

Early Notables of the Vilicombe family

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Vilicombe migration to Canada +

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 Vilicombe surname or a spelling variation of the name include:

Vilicombe Settlers in Canada in the 19th Century

Mary Jane Vilicombe lived at Plate Cove in Bona Vista Bay, Newfoundland, in 1866 1

Citations +

Seary E.R., Family Names of the Island of Newfoundland, Montreal: McGill's-Queen's Universtity Press 1998 ISBN 0-7735-1782-0