History of the families Millingas and Millanges of Saxony and Normandy, comprising genealogies and biographies of their posterity surnamed Milliken, Millikin, Millikan, Millican, Milligan, Mulliken and Mullikin, AD800-AD1907; containing names of thirty thousand persons, with copious notes on intermarried and collateral families, and abstracts of early land grants, wills, and other documents .. . MILLIGAN. MILLIGAN i £3. teitA ^ -^ faM »sa fesa u >•,??:•:. i #n#m anb Changes of Surnames. ^Bg^gEisam^ gsMKgaites- - The use of established surnames cannot be traced backward to a periodmuch earli
History of the families Millingas and Millanges of Saxony and Normandy, comprising genealogies and biographies of their posterity surnamed Milliken, Millikin, Millikan, Millican, Milligan, Mulliken and Mullikin, AD800-AD1907; containing names of thirty thousand persons, with copious notes on intermarried and collateral families, and abstracts of early land grants, wills, and other documents .. . MILLIGAN. MILLIGAN i £3. teitA ^ -^ faM »sa fesa u >•,??:•:. i #n#m anb Changes of Surnames. ^Bg^gEisam^ gsMKgaites- - The use of established surnames cannot be traced backward to a periodmuch earlier than the middle of the tenth century. The first came intouse in Normandy, France, and at the coming of William the Conqueror(1066) were quite generally introduced into England. Many of the Nor-man adventurers who assisted in the Conquest had taken the names of theirplaces of residence, or of villages and hamlets near their ancestral cha-teaux, names that were used with the French preposition de before all of the soldiers of Williams army returned to their homes in Nor-mandy, and bestowed the lands awarded them in England upon theiryounger sons, who came over and settled upon them, giving to these newestates their own surnames. When the Norman-French language, so popularafter the Conquest, disappeared from England, the prefix de was almostuniversally discarded, unless retai
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