Samson Family Crest, Coat of Arms & Samson Name Origin

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Origin of the Name Samson

The Samson family history was found in the allfamilycrests.com archives. Meaning 'the son of Samson', this is a baptismal name. Variants include Sampson, Sansom, Sansome, Sanson, Sansum and Samsen. Chosen among Christians in direct reference to the great strenght of the biblical character and also of a 6th century Welsh Bishop, who travelled to Brittany where he died and was greatly venerated. 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 a Sansum le Rus, county Cambridge, who was recorded in the 'Hundred Rolls', England, in the year 1273 and a John Sampson and Elizabeth Clarke who were married in Saint Michaels, Cornhill, in the year 1559. In Scotland Samson was the first Bishop of Dunkeld in the year 1150, and a Laurence Samson was a witness in Lanarkshire in the year 1513. In Ireland the name is found in small numbers in Ulster having been introduced there from England centuries ago.