Wade Family Crest, Coat of Arms & Wade Name Origin

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Origin of the Name Wade

The Wade family history was found in the allfamilycrests.com archives. Meaning 'at the wade' Wade is a locational name from someone who lived near a Ford. Variants include Waide, Wadeson and Waidson. This name is of Anglo-Saxon descent spreading to the Celtic countries of Ireland, Scotland and Wales in early times and is found in many mediaeval manuscripts throughout the above islands. Examples of such are a Henry de la Wade, County Oxfordshire, who was recorded in the 'Hundred Rolls', England, in the year 1273 and a Johannes atte Waythe, who was recorded in the 'Poll Tax', of the West Riding of Yorkshire, in the year 1379. The name Wade in Ireland is of Gaelic, Anglo and Norman-French origin. In Monaghan Wade was sometimes used by the Gaelic MacUaid Sept instead of the more usual MacQuaid. It was also brought to Ulster by settlers from England, especially during the seventeenth century, and by Norman settlers during the thirteenth century.