Coffin (surname)

Coffin (surname)
Coffin
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Ethnicity English
Current region New England
Southern England
Information
Earlier spellings Coffyn
Place of origin Normandy
Connected families Pepys, Boscawen, Raleigh, Giffard, Champernowne, Prideaux, Beaumont, Basset, Chudleigh, Clifford, Gorges, Courtenay, various New England families
Estate Portledge

Coffin is an Anglo-Norman surname.

The House of Coffin is an ancient English family which originated in Normandy, France. Nearly all trace their ancestry to Sir Richard Coffin, a nobleman from Falaise who was a general in William the Conqueror's army in 1066.[1] The Coffins have held a number of manors, the most notable of which is Portledge in Devon, England. The progenitor of the American Coffins was Tristram Coffin, a Royalist, who came to Newbury, Massachusetts from Devonshire in 1642. He was the original proprietor of Nantucket. The American branch is one of the Boston Brahmin, a group of elite families based in and around Boston.

Some notable Coffins include:

Pine-Coffin marshalled arms


See also

References

  • Burke's Peerage

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