Bosone History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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Etymology of Bosone

The name Bosone is of Anglo-Saxon origin and came from when a family lived in the town of Bosham, four miles from Chichester in Sussex.

Early Origins of the Bosone family

Early History of the Bosone family

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Bosone Spelling Variations

Sound was what guided spelling in the essentially pre-literate Middle Ages, so one person's name was often recorded under several variations during a single lifetime. Also, before the advent of the printing press and the first dictionaries, the English language was not standardized. Therefore, spelling variations were common, even among the names of the most literate people. Known variations of the Bosone family name include Bosome, Bosom, Bossum, Bosham, Bosum, Bossom, Bossam, Bosam and many more.

Early Notables of the Bosone family

Notables of this surname at this time include: John Bossam, (fl. 1550), a prominent English painter, "mentioned by Nicholas Hilliard in a manuscript quioted by Vertue as 'that most rare English drawer of story works in black...
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Migration of the Bosone family

For political, religious, and economic reasons, thousands of English families boarded ships for Ireland, the Canadas, the America colonies, and many of smaller tropical colonies in the hope of finding better lives abroad. Although the passage on the cramped, dank ships caused many to arrive in the New World diseased and starving, those families that survived the trip often went on to make valuable contributions to those new societies to which they arrived. Early immigrants bearing the Bosone surname or a spelling variation of the name include : Charles Bossom, who arrived in America in 1748.