Calf Family Crest, Coat of Arms & Calf Name Origin

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Origin of the Name Calf

The Calf family history was found in the allfamilycrests.com archives. include Calfe, Vail, Veale and DeVeale. This names and its variants are of Norman origin originally being rendered as 'de Bhial'. After the Anglo-Norman invasion of the twelfth century families of the name settled in County Waterford in the south-east of Ireland and formed a sept along native Gaelic lines, integrating into Gaelic society. A sept or clan was a collective term describing a group of persons whose immediate ancestors bore a common surname and inhabited the same territory. The name is recorded in many ancient documents including the Ormond Deeds of the sixteenth century. In the seventeenth century the name was recorded as being one of the principal Irish names in the Barony of Decies. A Walter le Veele was Bishop of Kildare from 1300 to 1322. In modern times this name is still found mostly in its original homeland territory.