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Bossel Coat of Arms / Bossel Family CrestThe surname of BOSSEL was a locational name 'of Bossall' a parish in the North Riding of Yorkshire. The name was originally derived from the Old French 'boissell' probably originally a name for one who measured out corn or a maker of bushel-vessels. The name was brought into England in the wake of the Norman Invasion of 1066, and Roger Buisel, who was listed as a tenant in the Domesday Book of 1066, appears to be the first of the name on record. The names introduced into Britain by the Normans during the Invasion of 1066 were of three kinds. There were names of Norse origin which their ancestors had carried into Normandy; names of Germanic origin which the Frankish conquerors had brought across the Rhine and which had ousted the old Celtic and Latin names from France, and Biblical names and names of Latin and Greek saints. These names they retained even after the customs and language of the natives of Northern France had been adopted by them. After the Norman Conquest not only Normans, but Frenchmen and Bretons from other parts of France settled in England, and quite a few found their way north into Scotland. Other records of the name mention Stephen Busselman, County Somerset, during the reign of Edward III (1327-1377). Johannes Bussell of Yorkshire, was listed in the Yorkshire Poll Tax of 1379. George Bussell and Elizabeth Spiller were married at St. George's, Hanover Square, London in 1793. During the Middle Ages, when people were unable to read or write, signs were needed for all visual identification. For several centuries city streets in Britain were filled with signs of all kinds, public houses, tradesmen and even private householders found them necessary. This was an age when there were no numbered houses, and an address was a descriptive phrase that made use of a convenient landmark. At this time, coats of arms came into being, for the practical reason that men went into battle heavily armed and were difficult to recognise. It became the custom for them to adorn their helmets with distinctive crests, and to paint their shields with animals and the like. Coats of arms accompanied the development of surnames, becoming hereditary in the same way. The associated coat of arms is recorded in Sir Bernard Burkes General Armory. Ulster King of Arms in 1884. |
