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Where did the English Siggers family come from? What is the English Siggers family crest and coat of arms? When did the Siggers family first arrive in the United States? Where did the various branches of the family go? What is the Siggers family history?The origins of the name Siggers are from the ancient Anglo-Saxon culture of Britain. It is derived from the baptismal name for the son of Sigar which was an Old English personal name.
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 Siggers family name include Segar, Seeger, Seegar, Sigar, Sugar, Seager, Sager, Saker, Sakar and many more.
First found in Norfolk where they held a family seat from early times and their first records appeared on the census rolls taken by the ancient Kings of Britain to determine the rate of taxation of their subjects.
This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Siggers research. Another 277 words(20 lines of text) covering the years 1564, 1633, 1693, and 1768 are included under the topic Early Siggers History in all our PDF Extended History products.
Another 48 words(3 lines of text) are included under the topic Early Siggers Notables in all our PDF Extended History products.
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 Siggers surname or a spelling variation of the name include: John Saker who settled in Maine in 1625; Thomas, Marie and Joe Saker landed in Virginia in 1635; Thomas Saker settled in Virginia in 1653; John Seegar arrived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1880.
The Siggers Family Crest was acquired from the Houseofnames.com archives. The Siggers Family Crest was drawn according to heraldic standards based on published blazons. We generally include the oldest published family crest once associated with each surname.
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