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Origin of the Name Childers



The Childers family history was found in the allfamilycrests.com archives.
Over the centuries Surnames developed a wide number of variants. Different spellings of the same name can be traced back to an original root. Additionally when a bearer of a name emigrated it was not uncommon that their original name would be incorrectly transcribed in the record books at their new location. Surnames were also often altered over the years based on how they sounded phonetically and depending on the prevailing political conditions it may have been advantageous to change a name from one language to another.
Variants of the name Childers
include Childerhouse, Childress and Childer. This is a locality name meaning 'of the Childerhouse', from a person who lived beside a school or orphanage. This name is of English descent and is found in many ancient manuscripts in that country. Examples of such are an Alex del Childrehus of County Norfolk who was recorded in the 'Hundred Rolls', England , in the year 1273. A Thomas Childers was buried in Saint James, Clerkenwell, in the year 1665. A Bartholomew Childerhowse was Vicar of Lakenham in the fifteenth century.
Names were recorded in these ancient documents to make it easier for their overlords to collect taxes and to keep records of the population at any given time. When the overlords acquired land by either force or gifts from their rulers, they created charters of ownership for themselves and their vassals. It was by creating, maintaining and updating these reference books that they were able to maintain their authority and enforce laws.
In Ireland this name and its variants were introduced into Ulster Province by settlers who arrived from England and Scotland , especially during the seventeenth century. It was the 'Plantations of Ireland ' in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that marked the end of Gaelic supremacy in Ireland . While the influx of settlers in the wake of the earlier Anglo-Norman invasion of the twelfth century resulted in a full integration into Irish society of the new arrivals, the same never occurred with the Ulster Planters who maintained their own distinct identity.
A famous bearer of the name was Erskine Childers, 1905-1974, who was the fourth President of Ireland .
The Childers coat of arms came into existence centuries ago. The process of creating coats of arms (also often called family crests) began in the eleventh century although a form of Proto-Heraldry may have existed in some countries prior to this. The new art of Heraldry made it possible for families and even individual family members to have their very own coat of arms, including all Childers descendants.
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