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Author: jcady622
Surnames: cady, cade
Classification: queries
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A lot of guesswork has been done on the surname Cady. The latest Y-DNA evidence (on
FamilytreeDNA.Com) points to the name coming from Viking origins. The Vikings who settled
in East Anglica, spoke a language similar to that spoken in Denmark and Southern Sweden
after 900. What is odd is that this language had no "C", it did have the
"Ka". The name seems to have a common ancestor born after 1066. In the period
the languages spoken were Middle English, Anglo-Norman and Latin. The surname comes from
East Angelica of which Suffolk was part. The name appeared in written records in early
Edinburgh, York, and Suffolk. It was reported in the Census of 1851 in several Counties,
but heaviest in Suffolk. With this little information, we can cross off several claims as
to it's origin. It is not Scottish, Welsh, or Irish. It was not likely to be from
Wessex (Western England), so it is not related to Cadbury or any Germanic surname, The
only name left that had not been eliminated i!
s Cade, which is has been often confused. The only point I can clarify was that Cade was
thought to be from a French wine cast ot a domestic animal kept as a pet. I believe the
spelling might be the same but pronounced differently (Cad, Ka-dee, Ka-id)
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