Wrangham History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

Origins Available:
Scotland
England

Early Origins of the Wrangham family

The surname Wrangham was first found in Forfarshire part of the Tayside region of North Eastern Scotland, and present day Council Area of Angus, where they held a family seat. It is claimed that they were from Wrangholm, an old village near Melrose Abbey and that the village was the ancient birth place of St. Cuthbert. Both the village and the shrine are now ploughed under and all that remains is a field. 1

Just over the border in Cumbria (Cumberland) England, Thomas de Wrangham was listed in the Subsidy Rolls for 1332. 2

Early History of the Wrangham family

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Wrangham research. Another 138 words (10 lines of text) covering the years 1565, 1668, 1731, 1742, 1769, 1776, 1780, 1786, 1791, 1794, 1795, 1800, 1808, 1811, 1812, 1831 and 1842 are included under the topic Early Wrangham History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Wrangham Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Wrangham, Rangham, Wrangholme, Rangholme, Rengham, Wrengham, Rengholme, Rangholm, Wrangholm, Wranghame, Ranghame, Wraynham, Rainham and many more.

Early Notables of the Wrangham family

Francis Wrangham (1769-1842), classical scholar and miscellaneous writer, born on 11 June 1769, was the only son of George Wrangham (1742-1791), who occupied the farm of Raysthorpe, near Malton in Yor...

Wrangham migration to the United States +

Wrangham Settlers in United States in the 19th Century

George Wrangham who landed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1865

Wrangham migration to Australia +

Wrangham Settlers in Australia in the 19th Century

Timothy Wrangham, a coppersmith, who arrived in New South Wales, Australia sometime between 1825 and 1832

Wrangham migration to West Indies +

The British first settled the British West Indies around 1604. They made many attempts but failed in some to establish settlements on the Islands including Saint Lucia and Grenada. By 1627 they had managed to establish settlements on St. Kitts (St. Christopher) and Barbados, but by 1641 the Spanish had moved in and destroyed some of these including those at Providence Island. The British continued to expand the settlements including setting the First Federation in the British West Indies by 1674; some of the islands include Barbados, Bermuda, Cayman Island, Turks and Caicos, Jamaica and Belize then known as British Honduras. By the 1960's many of the islands became independent after the West Indies Federation which existed from 1958 to 1962 failed due to internal political conflicts. After this a number of Eastern Caribbean islands formed a free association. 3

Wrangham Settlers in West Indies in the 17th Century

George Wrangham, aged 19, who landed in Barbados in 1683 4

Contemporary Notables of the name Wrangham (post 1700) +

The Venerable Francis Wrangham (1769-1842), English cleric, Archdeacon of the East Riding of Yorkshire (1828-1841), Fellow of the Royal Society, Archdeacon of Cleveland (1820–1828) 5
Digby Cayley Wrangham (1805-1863), English barrister and politician, private secretary to Lord Aberdeen in the Foreign Office, son of Francis Wrangham
Sir Geoffrey Walter Wrangham, British jurist, Judge of High Court of Justice, Retired, Warkworth, Northumberland
Richard Wrangham (b. 1948), British primatologist, Professor in Biological Anthropology at Harvard University
Cuthbert Edward Wrangham, British Company Director, Marine & General Mutual Life Assurance Society, of North Yorkshire, England

The Wrangham Motto +

The motto was originally a war cry or slogan. Mottoes first began to be shown with arms in the 14th and 15th centuries, but were not in general use until the 17th century. Thus the oldest coats of arms generally do not include a motto. Mottoes seldom form part of the grant of arms: Under most heraldic authorities, a motto is an optional component of the coat of arms, and can be added to or changed at will; many families have chosen not to display a motto.

Motto: Hyeme ex Superata
Motto Translation: When the Winter is Over.

Sources +

Black, George F., The Surnames of Scotland Their Origin, Meaning and History. New York: New York Public Library, 1946. Print. (ISBN 0-87104-172-3)
Reaney, P.H and R.M. Wilson, A Dictionary of English Surnames. London: Routledge, 1991. Print. (ISBN 0-415-05737-X)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_West_Indies
Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
Wikisource contributors. "Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900." Wikisource . Wikisource , 4 Jun. 2018. Web. 13 Feb. 2019