[or-roots] Why the given name squire

[Marsha BradleyLuthy]

It comes from the French word 'écuyer', which means horseman or someone who
looks after horses. In the Middle Ages it had a more specific meaning of a
young man preparing to become a knight. It has evolved to become the title
or way of addressing the Lord of the Manor in the English feudal system and
is also used as a way of addressing some one supposedly important - a pub
landlord might well use it to welcome a customer.

On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Marilyn Schwartz <
familyismytreasure at comcast.net> wrote:

>  I have a “Squire Crume” in my family tree, born 1798 in Kentucky.  I
> believe the family was of Scottish heritage, or Scots-Irish.  I missed the
> first part of this discussion, so someone may have already mentioned that
> Daniel Boone’s father was named Squire Boone (and I may be wrong, but I
> believe they were Scots-Irish).  I just did a quick search on “WorldConnect”
> entering ONLY “Squire” as the given name (no surname entered), and I got
> about 50,000 hits.  Looking quickly at them, some are surnames or titles.
> But, many have the given name “Squire.”
>
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> *From:* or-roots-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us [mailto:
> or-roots-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us] *On Behalf Of *Barbara Wulf
> *Sent:* Saturday, September 25, 2010 6:54 PM
> *To:* or-roots mail list
> *Subject:* Re: [or-roots] Why the given name squire
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> You might want to check the family tree for a sir name of Squire. Often the
> strange first names were a maiden name from somewhere in the family.
>
>
>
> Barb
>
>  ----- Original Message -----
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> *From:* Leslie Chapman <opera_70 at yahoo.com>
>
> *To:* Bonnie B. Combs <Tosca at prodigy.net> ; or-roots mail list<or-roots at listsmart.osl.state.or.us>
>
> *Sent:* Saturday, September 25, 2010 1:26 PM
>
> *Subject:* [or-roots] Why the given name squire
>
>
>
> I think the "delusions of grandeur"  answer is probably closest; I don't
> know exactly what got into our ancestors with regards to given name, perhaps
> in response to the confusion of twenty generations of "John son of John son
> of John"  they decided to be original in a fairly outrageous way.
>
>
>
> In today's world Manlove is kind of an unfortunate choice but I have a
> family in my file where that was one of the better ones, Patience was
> another one that works for me, but most of the family must have cringed
> every time they were asked for their given name.
>
>
>
> I was attempting to find the file and seem to have locked up FTM so am
> going to post this without the listing of names I found offensive, but I am
> sure most of you who have traced any line back to the 17th century know the
> types of names I mean.
>
>
>
> Les C
>
>
>
> PS Wiki and other online info sites don't address the issue of Squire used
> as a given name at all, 20,001 baby names only refers to the age of chivalry
> meaning and it's metamorphosis into aide-de-campe. My dictionary doesn't
> even list it.
>
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