Jamieson Family Crest, Coat of Arms & Jamieson Name Origin

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Origin of the Name Jamieson

The Jamieson family history was found in the allfamilycrests.com archives. The names Jamieson and Jameson are baptismal names meaning 'son of James', a very old personal name. Variants include Jamison and Jamson. This name is of Anglo-Norman descent spreading to Ireland , Scotland and Wales in early times and is found in many mediaeval manuscripts in the above countries. Examples of such are an Alicia James, who was recorded in the 'Poll Tax' of the West Riding of Yorkshire in the year 1379 and a Robert Mowlde and Alice James were married in London in the year 1566. A William Jamison and Mary Smith were married in Saint George, Hanover Square, in the year 1769. The purely English Jamison and its variants are mostly confined to North England , and indeed the great majority are of lowland Scottish descent. In Ireland this name is often an abbreviation of MacJames and Fitzjames formed from early settled Norman families and is numerous in Counties Carlow and Wicklow.