Wattines History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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• England
• Ireland

Etymology of Wattines

Wattines is one of the many names that the Normans brought with them when they conquered England in 1066. The Wattines family lived in Yorkshire, at Wadding.

Early Origins of the Wattines family

Early History of the Wattines family

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Wattines Spelling Variations

Anglo-Norman names tend to be marked by an enormous number of spelling variations. This is largely due to the fact that Old and Middle English lacked any spelling rules when Norman French was introduced in the 11th century. The languages of the English courts at that time were French and Latin. These various languages mixed quite freely in the evolving social milieu. The final element of this mix is that medieval scribes spelled words according to their sounds rather than any definite rules, so a name was often spelled in as many different ways as the number of documents it appeared in. The name was spelled Wadding, Wadden, Waddyng, Wading and others.

Early Notables of the Wattines family

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Migration of the Wattines family to Ireland

Some of the Wattines family moved to Ireland, but this topic is not covered in this excerpt.
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Migration of the Wattines family

Because of the political and religious discontent in England, families began to migrate abroad in enormous numbers. Faced with persecution and starvation at home, the open frontiers and generally less oppressive social environment of the New World seemed tantalizing indeed to many English people. The trip was difficult, and not all made it unscathed, but many of those who did get to Canada and the United States made important contributions to the young nations in which they settled. Some of the first North American settlers with Wattines name or one of its variants: Margaret Wadden from County Wexford who settled in St. John's Newfoundland in 1878; John Wadden settled in Heart's Content in Newfoundland in 1871.