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Origin: ScottishCoat of Arms: A red shield with a green saltire over which is a gold saltire.
Crest: A saracen's head.
Motto: Victrix fortuna sapientia.
Motto Translated: Wisdom is the conqueror of fortune.
Origin: Scottish
Spelling
variations include: Andrew, Andrews, MacAndrew, Androw, Androe, Andro
and many more.
First found in Caithness. This family was strongly associated with the Clan Ross.
Some
of the first settlers of this name or some of its variants were: Ralph
Andrew, son of Thomas Andrew of Carlisle, who landed in America in
1664; John Andrew, son of Sir John Andrew of Charlton, landed in 1650;
William Andrew settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a ships captain who
settled in 1634.
The word, saracen, was used in
the early centuries of the Roman Empire describing an Arab tribe from
the Sinai Desert. In
modern times, a Saracen has also commonly been applied to Mediterranean
pirates, or to describe a nomadic Arab.English: patronymic from the personal name Andrew. This
is
the usual southern English patronymic form, also found in Wales; the
Scottish and northern English form is Anderson. In North
America this name has absorbed numerous cases of the various European
cognates and their derivatives. (For forms, see Hanks and Hodges
1988.)
Dictionary of American Family Names,
Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4 What's in a Name?
ANDREWS
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