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Jacklin Coat of Arms / Jacklin Family CrestThe surname of JACKLIN was a baptismal name 'the son of Jack'. The name was found in early documents in its Latin form of JACOBUS, and the first recorded of the name was JALELINUS (without surname) who appears in the year 1219 in the County of Yorkshire. The name is also spelt JAKLEY, JACKELEY, JACKLEY and JACKE. The acquisition of surnames in Europe and England, during the last eight hundred years has been affected by many factors, including social class and social structure, naming practices in cultures and traditions. On the whole the richer and more powerful classes tended to aquire surnames earlier than the working class or the poor, while surnames were quicker to catch on in urban areas than in more sparsely populated rural areas. The bulk of surnames in England were formed in the 13th and 14th centuries. The process started earlier and continued in place names into the 19th century, but the norm is that in the 11th century people did not have surnames, whereas by the 15th century they did. Later instances of the name include Thomas de JACKLEY of Yorkshire who was listed in the Yorkshire Poll Tax of 1379 and Edward JAKELEY appears in County Lancashire in the year 1440. A later instance of the name mentions James Walker who married Mary JACKLING at St.George's, Hanover Square, London in 1749. Over the centuries, most people in Europe have accepted their surname as a fact of life, as irrevocable as an act of God. However much the individual may have liked or disliked the surname, they were stuck with it, and people rarely changed them by personal choice. A more common form of variation was in fact involuntary, when an official change was made, in other words, a clerical error. Among the humbler classes of European society, and especially among illiterate people, individuals were willing to accept the mistakes of officials, clerks and priests as officially bestowing a new version of their surname, just as they had meekly accepted the surname they had been born with. In North America, the linguistic problems confronting immigration officials at Ellis Island in the 19th century were legendary as a prolific source of Anglicization. The associated arms are recorded in Rietstaps Armorial General. Registered in Switzerland. |
