The Ogden family in America, Elizabethtown branch, and their English ancestry; John Ogden, the Pilgrim, and his descendants, 1640-1906 . ENGLISH OGDEN ANCESTRY AND DERIVATION OF THE SURNAME. ROOT-TRACING of the surname Ogden readily leadsus backward to early Saxon soil. Authorities onEnglish surnames generally agree that the namecomes from the Saxon ock, oak-tree, and den, alocal termination occurring in the weald of Kent,Sussex, and elsewhere, implying a covert and feedingplace for animals, and synonymous with dean, awooded valley, or tract yielding acorns or surname is thus freely r
The Ogden family in America, Elizabethtown branch, and their English ancestry; John Ogden, the Pilgrim, and his descendants, 1640-1906 . ENGLISH OGDEN ANCESTRY AND DERIVATION OF THE SURNAME. ROOT-TRACING of the surname Ogden readily leadsus backward to early Saxon soil. Authorities onEnglish surnames generally agree that the namecomes from the Saxon ock, oak-tree, and den, alocal termination occurring in the weald of Kent,Sussex, and elsewhere, implying a covert and feedingplace for animals, and synonymous with dean, awooded valley, or tract yielding acorns or surname is thus freely rendered, the oak valley, oak dale,vale of oaks, leafy vale; or, as William Arthur, , in An Ety-mological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names, says, the oak vale,or shady valley. In support of this interpretation the fact may be statedthat on all the escutcheons of the arms-bearing Ogden families of England,the oak branch, or oak leaves and acorns are ahvays found, and usuallyin the crest. One of the earliest arms—that of Okton, in GuillimsDisplay of Heraldry (1724)—has the quartering of the Quaker Ogdenarms, but in blue, and canton in corner, while the same quartering is
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