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Leavesley Coat of Arms / Leavesley Family CrestThe surname of LEAVESLEY was a locational name 'of Livesey', a township in the parish of Blackburn, County Lancashire. The name is also spelt LIVESLEY, LEVESLEY and LEAVSLEY. The bulk of European surnames in countries such as England and France were formed in the 13th and 14th centuries. The process started earlier and continued in some places 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. The acquisition of surnames in Europe during the past eight hundred years has been affected by many factors, including social class and social structure, naming practices in neighbouring cultures, and indigenous cultural tradition. On the whole, the richer and more powerful classes tended to acquire surnames earlier than the working classes and the poor, while surnames were quicker to catch on in urban areas than in more sparsely populated rural areas. These facts suggest that the origin of surnames is associated with the emergence of bureaucracies. As long as land tenure, military service, and fealty were matters of direct relationship between a lord and his vassals, the need did not arise for fixed distinguishing epithets to mark out one carl from another. But as societies became more complex, and as such matters as the management of tenure and in particular the collection of taxes were delegated to special functionaries, it became imperative to have a more complex system of nomenclature to distinguish one individual from another reliably and unambiguously. Early records of the name mention James Levesey in 1547 held Levesey as a manor. William Sherlocke and Ellen Livesey, widow, were married in London, 1578. George Livesey of Blackburn, 1592, Wills at Chester 1545-1620. James Livesey of Livesey in 1616, ibid. Roger Livesey of Darwen, near Blackburn in 1620, ibid. The origin of badges and emblems, are traced to the earliest times, although, Heraldry, in fact, cannot be traced later than the 12th century, or at furthest the 11th century. At first armorial bearings were probably like surnames and assumed by each warrior at his free will and pleasure, his object being to distinguish himself from others. It has long been a matter of doubt when bearing Coats of Arms first became hereditary. |
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