So is it possible to find out the details on the Creswell Family Crest?
Online there are a lot of sites offering services for a cost. In our family crest post we showed you a great tip on how to find your family crest on Google for free
Today i’m interested in finding my family crest for free. A search on Google for “Family Crest” brings up all the usual suspects of adverts for the family crest. Amongst them i found this site that at least enables you to get the information for free and you just pay if you want a hi-res version of your crest.
The stangest thing is if you do a search on Google images you can find incredible variants on the family crest images. i then wonder if half the time they are just a random shield with a random surname attached and then said to be your own family crest. Lets be honest would you know the difference?
The site tells me that my family name is Creswell is Scottish
Before the printing press standardized spelling in the last few hundred years, no general rules existed in the English language. Spelling variations in Scottish names from the Middle Ages are common even within a single document. creswell has been spelled Carswell, Cresswell, Carsewell, Cressville, Carswele, Kersewell, Cressewell
I’m then told by the same site that for many Scottish immigrants, the great expense of travel to North America did not seem such a problem in those unstable times. Acres of land awaited them and many got the chance to fight for their freedom in the American War of Independence. These Scots and their ancestors went on to play important roles in the forging of the great nations of the United States and Canada. Among them: John Carswell who settled in Charles Town [Charleston], South Carolina in 1767 with his wife Anne, and his children George, Joseph, Thomas, and Rebecca.
Now thats not too bad for a free insight
The site is called http://www.houseofnames.com/
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