Display your Welsh Coat of Arms and Family Clan Crest with pride.

The Welsh are descended from at least two distinct ethnic stock—the tall ruddy Celtic invaders of about 500 B. C. and the earlier “Iberians” (called little black-haired people). Examples of these are Pritchard (ap Richard) and Bowen (ap Owen with the 'p' hardened to 'b'). The Drykch (Mirror) of Utica, New York, which was formed in 1851, claiming a national circulation of 12,000 at its height. This website works best with modern browsers such as the latest versions of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge. It was not until the late seventeenth century that many families in Yorkshire and Halifax took permanent surnames.

If your Welsh ancestors came in the 19th Century, they probably sailed from Liverpool, England. This is partly attributable to the reduction in the variety of baptismal names after the Protestant Reformation. Recent settled surnames of Welsh patronymic origin – These originally came from the first name of the father which usually changed from generation to generation under the patronymic system of Wales but now mostly stay the same from generation to generation. William ap John Thomas, standard-bearer of King Henry VIII  became known as William Jones. (University of Wales Press, 1985, ISBN 0-7083-0936-4).

Fixed surnames were adopted in Wales from the 15th century onwards. Such hereditary names were not universally prevalent and settled, however, prior to the era of the Reformation in sixteenth century England. The Morgans give some examples from early records. Those derived from Christian names common in England - like Jones, Thomas, Davies and Williams. The “a” in ap was often dropped, and that accounts for the frequency of the surname starting with P. This is how Hugh became Pugh; Powell is from ap Howell, Pritchard from ap Richard, and Price from ap Rhys. It is fairly well known that there are relatively few Welsh surnames.

Those extended patronymics were essentially a genealogical history of the male line. Alternatively, given surnames are used, as in the case of the folk singer and political figure Dafydd Iwan (Dafydd Iwan Jones), opera singer Bryn Terfel (Bryn Terfel Jones), classical singer Shân Cothi, and the late actress Myfanwy Talog. Utah also attracted many Welsh settlers due to the Mormons’ missionary work in Wales, 1840- 1870s. It is not uncommon for five or more of the starting fifteen for the Wales international rugby team to be named Jones (all of the following played in the same period and are not immediately related to any of the others: Adam R. Jones, Dafydd Jones, Ryan Jones, Stephen Jones, Mark Jones, Adam M. Jones, Alun Wyn Jones, Duncan Jones). This Rhosier's father was Rhosier, therefore the father had to be Rhosier Hen 'the Old' and the son Rhosier Fychan, i.e. In fact, data from a Census Bureau study reveals that the number of Hispanic surnames in the top 25 doubled between 1990 and 2000. Surnames beginning 'Q' Quaite, Hen, 7.32. [2][3], An analysis of the geography of Welsh surnames commissioned by the Welsh Government found that 718,000 people in Wales, nearly 35% of the Welsh population, have a family name of Welsh origin, compared with 5.3% in the rest of the United Kingdom, 4.7% in New Zealand, 4.1% in Australia, and 3.8% in the United States. As most Welsh surnames are derived from patronymics, and often based on a small set of first names, Welsh communities have families bearing the same surnames who are not related. Our Welsh ancestors (bless them!) Since many Welsh were skilled workers they found work in the iron-industry, as coal miners, slate quarrymen or tin-platers. “…it has been estimated that about nine-tenths of the Welsh population answer to a total of a hundred names and that sometimes only a half-dozen names will be shared by 20 or 30 families.”, By MYRA VANDERPOOL GORMLEY, CG

[1] These laws were decaying by the later Middle Ages, and the patronymic system was gradually replaced by fixed surnames, although the use of patronymic names continued up until the early 19th century in some rural areas. You will probably find that your Welsh families were Baptists, Wesleyan, Methodists, Calvanistics Methodists, Congregationalists or Mormons.

A total of 16.3 million people in the countries studied had a name of Welsh origin. Patronymic surnames with the short -s form are recorded in various parts of England dating back to the Middle Ages.

These became typical Welsh surnames (Jones, Williams, etc) as the patronymic system fell into disuse. If you continue with this browser, you may see unexpected results. 5, No. He notes four categories: One might add a sub-category of descriptive surnames within the Celtic group   (Gwyn is from the Welsh for "white" and means 'fair-haired') and a further place name group (the name Blayney is an English scribe's version of the Welsh town of Blaenau). You will be able to search for information and see search results, however to see original records or transcripts you will need to pay as you go or use the subscription database Ancestry.com. Quantock, : Francis; Mary, w, 48.8 Hen; Anne, w; Jos, s; Anne, d, 43.10.

Find out where in the world your surname originated, what it originally meant and how many other people you share it with. Thomas ap Lewis, the son of Lewis ap Sir David was killed at the battle of Banbury in 1469. [2], The stock of Welsh surnames is small.

As early as 1839 there were some 46 Welsh churches in the United States, and by 1872 there were nearly 400. The State Library of South Australia has a subscription to Ancestry.com (Library edition) that may be used within the Library. There were Welsh settlements in Cambria County area of Pennsylvania in the 1790s; in Oneida and Lewis counties, New York; in several areas of Ohio; with many of them moving on west to Wisconsin in the 1840s.

[1] Names such as Llewelyn ap Dafydd ab Ieuan ap Gruffudd ap Meredydd were not uncommon. That is, they said, “David ap Morgan ap Griffith ap Hugh ap Tudor ap Rhice” ap meaning “son of.” The “a” in ap was often dropped, and that accounts for the frequency of the surname starting with P. This is how Hugh became Pugh; Powell is from ap Howell, Pritchard from ap Richard, and Price from ap Rhys. Reprinted from American Genealogy Magazine, Vol. A Welsh-language press flourished in the United States for more than a century with a dozen newspapers coming and going. Surnames which originally contained the prefix "ap" (meaning "son of" in the same way as the Scottish "Mac"). Other names were derived from nicknames, a few non-hereditary personal names and, rarely, occupational names. passed along their love for music, poetry, drama and art, but they also cursed us with many common surnames along with the hard work of sorting out our families named Jones, Owen, Ellis, Price and Davis. Thus Williams and Roberts are more likely to be Welsh than are the names Williamson and Robertson. [1] For example, Evan son of Thomas would be known as Evan (ap) Thomas; Evan's son, John, would be John (ab) Evan; and John's son Rees would be Rees (ap) John. The name of this family has its origins in the Welsh epithet Fychan, attached to the name of Rhosier .... who was killed protecting the body of Henry V at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415. [4], Although the vast majority of Welsh surnames are family names, there has been a limited revival of patronymics in modern Wales, especially among Welsh speakers. 'Young Roger'. British surnames beginning with 'E'.

New surnames retained the ap in several cases, mainly in reduced form at the start of the surname, as in Upjohn (from ap John), Powell (from ap Hywel), Price (from ap Rhys), Pritchard (from ap Richard), and Bowen (from ab Owen). Do not post or publish without written permission By the 17th Century, the fixed surname was apparent in most of Wales although examples of the old naming tradition have been found in 19th Century records.

By the 17th Century, there had been a decline in the popularity of native Welsh forenames names like Goronwy, Madog and Bleddyn. The first sizable emigration of the Welsh to America came in 1680-1720 and as early as 1667 a congregation of Baptists from South Wales had founded Swansea on the Plymouth-Rhode Island border. Rhosier's sons (not all) are called Fychan or Vaughan, and it is fairly clear that Vaughan in this generation had become the surname."

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