BENNETT FAMILY GENEALOGY

 

MOTTO: De bon vouloir servir le roi

(“To serve the king with a right good will”)

 

 

The name Bennett is an age-old Boernician-Scottish name whose roots are found in the Scottish/English borderlands of the medieval era. Originally it was a common diminutive of the name Benedict, which comes from the Latin phrase bene (‘well’) dicere (‘to say’) or benedicere (‘to bless’), and its past participle benedictus (‘blessed’), a frequent Christian name bestowed in honor of the great St. Benedict (circa 480-547, Benedict of Nursia, founder of the Benedictine order). This is where we get the word ‘benediction’ that Webster’s Dictionary defines as “the invocation of a blessing; especially the short blessing with which public worship is concluded.”

 

S. B. Bennett in his 1899 book The Bennett, Bently and Beers Family quoted James Gordon Bennett, founder of the New York Herald (pg. 3): “The Bennetts were a little band of Freeboters, A.D. 896, in Saxony. I have no doubt they robbed and plundered a good deal. They had emigrated to France and settled on the river Loire, where they lived several hundred years. The family was Roman Catholic, and later, of the Church of England.”  The name was first found in a part of north Lancashire, where a Benedictine monastery known as Furnace Abbey was founded by the Savigny monks of Normandy in 1127. There they held a family seat. In England, because of the Reformation, and the family’s strong identification with the Monastic Movement, against which King Henry VIII (1509-1547) worked so strongly, they fell out of favor, except in Catholic circles; however, during the reign of King Charles I (who ruled England, Scotland and Ireland; 1625-1649), they began acquiring considerable importance. Sir Henry Bennett became the private secretary to King Charles II (1649-1660).

 

By the 12th century, the name was found in versions derived directly from Latin, as well as versions derived from Norman French. It is a common occurrence  for personal names to be shortened, or take on various forms. As early as 1190 it showed up in the Records of Nottingham as Benefit, in Yorkshire (1301) as Benite, in Scotland (1402) as Benet, and between 1208 to 1581 as Bennet (Cambridge), Benetes (Stafford), and Bennett (Cornwall).  Other spelling variations include Bennitt, Benett, Benit, Beneat, Benight, Bennetson, Bonat, and Bonette. Some researchers will also include the names of Bennison, Benison and Benson, yet it is more likely that they are derivatives of the surname Benn, which may be based on the Nordic name Bjorn.  An ‘s’ placed at the end of the name, as in Bennetts, means “child of Bennett.”

 

The name Bennett has existed in Ireland since the fourteenth century when the ancestors of the Irish Bennetts moved there from England  with the early Norman settlers, and like many of these assimilated the Gaelic culture and traditions. In Ulster, the family name frequently appears as McBennett, while in most other sections of the country it survives in its original French form (Benoit, Beneit, which was common among Normans) which in Irish was Bineid. Throughout Irish history, the Bennetts seem to have been more noted as merchants, civic leaders, and literary men, than as soldiers or landowners. Their names are found most frequently in the records of the medieval guilds. They made their homes chiefly in Dublin and other Irish ports and centers of commerce. Outside the cities, the name is today numerically strongest in the counties of Kilkenny, Leix and Cork. Bishop Bennett, who ruled the See of Cork when Henry VIII proclaimed himself the head of the Church, was deprived of the temporalities of the See for his resistance to the Act of Supremacy. Many others of the name have distinguished themselves as educators and literary men both in England and in the United States.

 

The name turned up very early in the Colonial period in America, and few names were mentioned more frequently (though not always in a complimentary manner). In Boston, you’ll find a Bennett Street, and the mercantile firm of Benet & Co. existed as early as 1630. Among the first settlers in America were William Bennett (Virginia, 1628), and Samuel Bennett (Lynn, Massachusetts, 1635).

 

 

“A GOOD name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold.” (Proverbs 22:1)

 

 

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BENNETT FAMILY

 

 

ALPHABETICAL INDEX OF INTERLOCKING FAMILIES

 

 

A

ABY     ACKHART     ADAMS     ADAMS     ADAMS     AGETT     AGNEY     ALBRIGHT     ALESSI     ALLISON     ALSBAUGH     AMHISER     AMSLER     ANDERSON     ANDERSON     ANDERSON     ANWAY     ARMSTRONG     ARMSTRONG     ARMSTRONG     ARMSTRONG     ARNOLD     ARNOLD     ARONSON     AUGHEY     AUKER     AUMILLER     AUMILLER    AUMILLER      AUNGST     AUNGST     AURAND     AURAND     AWE    

 

B

BACHMAN     BAILEY     BAILEY     BAILEY     BAILY     BAKER     BAKER     BAKER     BAKER     BANKS     BARGER     BARGER     BARGO     BARKET     BARNARD     BARNES     BARR     BARTH     BARTHOLMEY     BARTLETT     BASEHORE     BASHORE     BATTISTA     BAUM     BEAM     BEAR     BEARLEY     BEARLEY     BEATTY     BEAVER     BEAVER     BEAVER     BECHTAL     BECK     BECK     BECKHAM     BECKWITH     BENDER     BENNER     BERGARA     BERGSTRESSER     BESCH     BICKHART     BIEBER     BILLINGS     BINGMAN     BINGMAN     BISHOP     BITTING     BLACK     BLACK     BLAIR     BLANTON     BLEWETT     BLOOM     BOBB     BOLLEN     BOLLINGER     BONHAM     BONSON     BONSON     BOOHER     BOOHER     BOOKER     BOOKER     BOONIE     BOOP     BOSSERT     BOSSINGER     BOUSUM     BOWER     BOWERSOX     BOWERSOX     BOWERSOX     BOWSER     BOYER     BOYER     BOYER     BOYER     BRABANDER     BRACKBILL     BRACKBILL     BRANNAN     BRANNON     BRATTON     BREACH     BRENEMAN     BRESSLER     BRIAR    BRININGER     BRINNINGER     BRISTOL     BRITTAIN     BROADHEAD     BROCK     BROUGHT     BROWER     BROWER     BROWER     BROWN     BROWN     BROWN     BRUMBAUGH     BRUNNER     BRYNER     BUCHANAN     BULICK     BURDGE     BURGER     BURKE     BURLEW     BURLEW     BURNS     BURRILL     BUSH     BUSKIRK     BYLER     BYRD   

 

C

CADDY     CALHOUN     CAMP     CAMPBELL     CAMPBELL     CANARY     CANFIELD     CAPARRO     CAPITOSTI     CARBAUGH     CARBAUGH     CARMICHAEL     CAROLUS     CARSON     CASNER     CASNER     CASNER     CASSETT     CASTLE     CHAMBERLAIN     CHARLES     CHERRY     CHILCOTE    CHOATE     CISNEY     CLAAR     CLAAR     CLAPPER     CLARK     CLABAUGH     CLINGER     CLOSE     CLOSE     CLOUSER     CLOUSER     CLOUSER     CLOUSER     COATS     COBB     COBLE     COFFEE     COFFEY     COFFMAN     COLABINE     COLBERT     COLLANBINE     COLLINS     COLLINS     COLYER     CONDRON     CONN     CONRAD     COOLEY     COON     COON     COOPRIDER     CORKINS     CORRELL     CORSON     COX     CRAIG     CRAIN     CRAMER     CRAMER     CRIMMEL     CRISTE     CRISTILLO     CRISWELL     CROCKER     CROOKS     CROZIER     CUBBERNUSS     CULBERTSON     CULLEN     CUMMINGS     CUNNINGHAM     CUNNINGHAM     CUNNINGHAM     CURRY    

 

D

DANNELS     DAVIES     DAVIS     DAVIS     DAVIS     DAY     DAY     DAYTON     DEAMER     DEAMER     DEAVOR     DeCAIR     DECKER     DECKER     DEFFENBAUGH     DEISS     DeLISIA     DELL     DELL     DELRIO     DERK     DICK     DIEHL     DIETRICK     DILL     DILLMAN     DILLON     DOBSON     DODSON     DOLAN     DOLBIN     DORMAN     DOULON     DOUGHERTY     DRASS     DREESE     DROCKENMILLER     DRUCKEMILLER     DUELL     DUNMIRE     DUNMIRE     DUNMOND     DUNN     DURST     DYSART     DYSART     DYSART    

 

E

EARGLE     EARNEST     EBERHARD     EBERSOLE     ECKLEY     ECKLEY     EDMUNDSON     EHLEY     EILER     EISENHOWER     EISENHOWER     ELLER     ELLIOTT     ELWELL     EMBRIANE     EMCH     EMIEL     EMMELL     ENDERS     EPPERSON     ERHLICH     ERICKSON     ERRICKSON     ESTEP     ESTES     EVART     EYER    

 

F

FARBER     FARMER     FARRAN     FARRAND     FARRELL     FARRELL     FASNACHT     FAUST     FEIST     FERENCZ     FERGUSON     FERGUSON     FERRELL     FETTERHOFF     FETTERMAN     FIELDGROVE     FIKE     FINIZIO     FIREBAUGH     FISHER     FISHER     FISHER     FISHER     FISHER     FISHER     FLECK     FLEMING     FLEMING     FLORENCE     FOCHT     FOESIC     FOGLE     FOLK     FOLKROAD     FOLTZ     FORD     FOREMAN     FORNAWALT     FOSTER     FOUSE     FOWLER     FOX     FRALEY     FRASE     FREEBERG     FREED    FREED     FREY     FRY     FRY     FRY     FRY     FRYE     FRYE     FULLERTON     FULTZ     FULTZ     FUNK     FURGASON     FURNIER    

 

G

GAMBER     GANE     GASPER     GASTON     GATTON     GAUTIER     GEARHART     GEARHART     GEEDEY     GEESAMAN     GEIB     GEISSINGER     GEORGE     GIBBONS     GILBERT     GILBERT     GILBERT     GILES     GILES     GILL     GINTER     GIPE     GLASGOW     GOODWIN     GORDAN     GORDON     GOSS     GOSS     GOSS     GOSS     GOSS     GOSS     GOSS     GOSS     GOSS     GOWEN     GRACE     GRAF     GRASSMYER     GRAY     GRAY     GRAY     GRAY     GREENBURG     GREGG     GREIDER     GREINER     GRIFFITH     GRISSINGER     GROSE     GROSS     GROSS     GROVE     GROVE     GROVE     GROVE     GRUBB     GRUPP     GUSLER     GUTSHALL    

 

H

HACKENBERGER     HACKENBERGER     HACKENBURG     HACKENBURGER     HAFFLEY     HAGER     HAINES     HAKALA     HAKE     HALE     HALL     HALL     HALL     HALLER     HAMILTON     HAMMAKER     HAMMER     HAMMERMEISTER     HARKER    HARKINSON     HARMON     HARRIS     HARRIS     HARSHBARGER     HART     HART     HARTZ     HASSENFLUG     HASSINGER     HAUCK     HAVICE     HAVICE     HAYES     HAYS     HAZLETT     HEARN     HECKERT     HECKLER     HEERMANS     HEETER    HEIMBACH     HEIMBACH     HEIMBAUGH     HEINBAUGH     HENRY     HENRY     HENRY     HENRY     HENRY     HENRY     HENRY     HEPNER     HERMES     HERNANDEZ     HERTO     HESKETH     HETRICK     HETRICK     HETRICK     HICKMAN     HICKS     HICKS     HICKS     HIGH     HILE     HILEMAN     HIMES     HINDELITER     HITCHCOCK     HITZ     HOAR     HOAR     HOBAUGH     HOCKENBERRY     HOCKENBERRY     HOCKENBROCK     HOFFMAN     HOFFMAN     HOFFMAN     HOLLIHAN     HOLLOMAN     HOMER     HOSLER     HOSLER     HOSTETLER     HOUSER     HUBLER     HUGHES     HUMMEL     HURLEY     HURLOCK     HURST     HUTCHINSON     HUTH

 

I

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