I need information on my Family history?

Question

I would like to know how my family came to be.

My last name is Ellingsworth and i am trying to gain knowledge on my C of A and Family crest.

Any information would help and please don't answer with a search engine to look on.

i have visited many web sites but i understand they are not 100% true.

Answer 1

look up ansetery .com

Answer 2

I found this for you in relation to your name.

Surname: Ellingsworth

This interesting surname of English origin is a locational name, from a place "Illingworth", near Halifax, West Yorkshire, deriving from the old English pre seventh century "Illingword", meaning an enclosure associated with "illa", which is a personal name from "hild", battle. The old English "worth", originally meant fence or enclosure but later meant an enclosure round a homestead. The surname itself first appears in records at the beginning of the 14th Century, (see below). Hugo de Ingleworth was recorded in the Poll Tax Records of Yorkshire in 1379, as did John de Illyngworth, Agnes de Elyngworth and Johannes de Ilkyngworth. (The "de" in these early surnames means, "of, who comes from", in this case Illingworth). Robert Illyngworth married Margaret Illigworth on September 20th 1546 at Halifax. In the modern idiom the surname has several spelling variations including: Ellingworth, Ellingsworth, Illingworth and Illingsworth.Notable namebearers include Cayley Illingworth (1758 - 1823), a topographer at Cambridge University (1787) and brother of William Illingworth (1764 - 1845), deputy-keeper of the records (1805 - 1819) and attorney at the King's bench (1788). The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Alice de Illingworth, which was dated 1314, (Yorkshire), in the "Court Rolls of the manor of Wakefield", during the reign of King Edward ll, known as "Edward of Caernafon", 1307 - 1327. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.

Hope this helps.

Answer 3

Okay, there are lots of websites selling coats of arms(misnomer family crest).  However, coats of arms do not belong to surnames.  They were and are granted to individual men and are passed down through the direct legitimate male line of descent.  Sometimes a daughter might have inherited one if there is no male heir.

Also only the oldest son is entitled to his father's coat of arms unchanged.  The younger sons have a slight change in them.

Tebs on this board can give you better instructions.

Another thing, there might have been more than one man named Ellingsworth granted a coat of arms, all different.  No one peddler that sells them on the internet, at airports, in shopping malls, in magazines will have all of them.  They don't need to in order to sell to people.  The only time they will have more than one is if more than one individual with the same surname from different national origins were granted one. Then they will have one of each and there might have been several of each.   Also, don't think that everyone named Ellingsworth were ever granted a coat of arms.

Those little walnut plaques with coats of arms and sometimes a family history on them frequently are valid but not for everyone with that surname.  People who display them might think it belongs to them but very likely it was granted to someone not even related.

Now, it is possible that you might have more than one in your family tree.  That doesn't mean you are entitled to any one of them.  It just means that after doing family research you find more than one ancestor that were granted coats of arms and if you have a book printed or even published on your family history, it is quite valid for you to put in your book pictures of your ancestors' coats of arms.  It would not be valid, however, to put in your book pictures of those that just happened to be granted to persons with the same surnames as your ancestors.

If you are an American and you have any English lines that goes back to early colonial days in the American South, you have a good chance of finding more than one in your family tree.  Some in the South have the one an ancestor brought over from England 300-400 years ago and they aren't those little walnut plaques.  As a rule, they dont display them.  They aren't any good for buying groceries or GASOLINE.

Walmart won't take them as a credit card either.

Your family history is really more than your name.  The only way to know your family history is to trace it starting with yourself and working back.  Don't rely on surname products.  You have 2 parents, 4 grandparents, 8 great grandparents, 16 great great grandparents totaling 30 people. Not all of them were named Ellingsworth and you have autosomal  DNA from all of them.  

Anytime you wish to trace your family history, there are lots of good people on this board that can give you some great tips and advice.

Answer 4

dude...ask ur dad,mum,or ya sis..or i dunno..sm1 from ur family..go through sm old recordz n **** like tat...