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Mainwaring Name Study

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About the Project

The Mainwaring Name Study project serves as a collaborative platform to collect information on the Mainwaring name. The hope is that other researchers like you will join the study to help make it a valuable reference point for other genealogists who are researching or have an interest in the Mainwaring name.

As a One Name Study, this project is not limited to persons who are related biologically. Individual studies can be used to branch out the research into specific methods and areas of interest, such as geographically (England Mainwarings), by time period (18th Century Mainwarings), or by topic (Mainwaring DNA, Mainwaring Occupations, Mainwaring Statistics). These studies may also include a number of family branches which have no immediate link with each other. Some researchers may even be motivated to go beyond the profile identification and research stage to compile fully sourced, single-family histories of some of the families they discover through this name study project.

Also see the related surnames and surname variants.

How to Join

To join the Mainwaring Name Study, first start out by browsing our current research pages to see if there is a specific study ongoing that fits your interests. If so, feel free to add your name to the Membership list below, post an introduction comment on the specific team page, and then dive right in!

If a research page does not yet exist for your particular area of interest, please contact the Name Study Coordinator: Anne Young for assistance.

... ... ... is a member of the Mainwaring Name Study Project.

Once you are ready to go, you can also show your project affiliation with the ONS Member Sticker:

{{Member|ONS|name=Mainwaring}}

Goals

This is a One Name Study to collect together in one place everything about the surname Mainwaring and its variants. The hope is that other researchers like you will join our study to help make it a valuable reference point for people studying lines that cross or intersect.

The scope of the study includes wives, husbands, and descendants.

Profiles are added to the study by tagging with the sticker:
This profile is part of the Mainwaring Name Study.
{{One Name Study|name=Mainwaring}}

which will place the profile into Category:Mainwaring_Name_Study

The Sticker should always be below the == Biography == heading and above the == Sources == heading.

We can further categorise Mainwaring family members by place. For the moment we have Mainwarings from

Research Pages

Here are some of the current research pages included in the study. I'll be working on them, and could use your help!

Membership

Related Surnames and Surname Variants

History of the surname

From the Wikipedia entry for the surname Mainwaring: The surname Mainwaring (/ˈmænərɪŋ/ or /ˌmeɪnˈwɛərɪŋ/) is an Anglo-Norman territorial surname deriving from "Mesnil Warin" (or "Mesnilwarin", "Mesnilvarin", "Mesnil Varin"), from the village of Le Mesnil Varin (= "the manor of Warin"), now Saint-Paër, Normandy.

From Patronymica Britannica (1860)

MAINWARING. In a MS. volume drawn up by Sir William Dugdale, and preserved at Over Peover, it is stated, that the name of this celebrated family has been spelt in the astonishing number of one hundred and thirty-one forms, in old records and more modern writings. Some of these may be cited as specimens: 1. Mesnilwarin ; 2. Masnihvaren ; 3. Mensilwaren ; 4. Meisnilwaren ; 5. Meidneilwar ; G. Meinilwarin ; 7. Menilwarin ; S. Mesnilwarin ; 9. Mesnilgarin ; 10. Meingarin ; 11. Maynwaringe; 12. Mainwayringe ; 13. Manwaringe ; 14. Mauwairing : 15. Maynwaring : 16. Maynering ; 17. Mannering : 18. Manwaring ; 19. Mainwaring; 20. Manwarren. The founder of the family in England was Randulphus de Mesnilwarin, who accompanied William the Conqueror, and received from him Warmingham, Peover, and thirteen other lordships in Cheshire, together with one in Norfolk. His descendants siread into many branches in Cheshire, and other northern counties, and included many personages of eminence. For ample accounts of the family see Ormerod's Cheshire. Inf. Rev. E. H. Mainwaring Sladen.
The name Mesnil-Warin signifies the Manor of Warin. — Mesnil, now written Menil, enters into many local names, about ninety of which are still found in the Itin. de la Normandie. Warin, Warine, or Guarine, was a common Christian name in Norman times ; but the particular personage who gave name to Mesnil-Warin is lost in the mists of antiquity, and the place itself is not to be traced on the map of Normandy.[1]

From the Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld, Australia), Saturday 15 August 1936, page 16:

Is Your Name—
MANNERING ?
THERE is always some spirited contention over this surname. It is brought to mind once again by a correspondent who is a Mannering, and who says, I have always understood that this is the oldest and the proper form of Mainwaring though I believe the Mainwarings pretend "that their name is older." Here then is the old. duel and I fear it may never be settled. It would be difficult, if not impossible, to decide the connections, if any, of the Mannerings with Mainwarings, but there is little doubt that the surnames had the same source. The correct pronunciation in both instances is Mannering. It was brought over with the Normans, however, as Mesnilwarin, and this seems remote from any form now in use. But this is a surname which has had some amazing variations, and offers one of the most notorious examples of the manner in which clerks and other persons have played tricks of spelling on names in the past.
Yet it must be agreed that in the matter of early families there is a stronger case for Mainwaring than Mannering. The oldest family were settled in Cheshire at Peover, and Dugdale the antiquarian, who made a collection of data concerning the name, with special reference to it in Cheshire, showed that he had found the extraordinary number of one hundred and thirty-one variations of that single name all drawn from authorised documents. As to this a commentator in "Archaelogia" said that it might be conjectured that these variations were intentional, could any probable motive be assigned for such a practice?" There may have been a motive sometimes. It was suggested by Lower that our ancestors deemed this diversity a specimen of elegant license, for the purpose of avoiding the monotony of a more regular and consistent mode: a specimen of taste somewhat akin to the fastidiousness in modern composition which as studiously rejects the repetition of words and phrases. Obviously there is another explantation. It often happened that variations of spelling were made by persons who, having succeeded, desired nothing more than to set themselves apart; just as so many Smiths will insist on calling themselves Smythe. However, it is clear that the descendants of the Mainwaring who came over with the Conqueror took root in Cheshire. The name was Manwaring as established in Kent, and a family of Manwarings held extensive property there in the time of Queen Elizabeth. The Mannerings have been fairly distributed over many counties.
A baronetcy came into the Cheshire family three hundred years ago but became extinct; a second baronetcy was created at the beginning of the last century, and the present baronet is Sir Harry Stapleton Mainwaring. Rev. Ernest Mannering, now a Sheffield vicar was principal of the Bishop Wilson Theological College in the Isle of Man, and domestic chaplain to the Bishop of Sodor and Man. and was afterwards vice-principal of St. Aidan's College at Birkenhead.[2]

Distribution of the surname

In England: Maps for 1881 and 21st century https://britishsurnames.co.uk/surname/mainwaring/map

Coat of Arms

One should note that a Coat of Arms is granted for the use of one particular person ('armiger'). The description of the Coat of Arms is known as the 'blazon' and it is very exact in its terminology. Children may inherit the blazon but it is modified according to prescribed rules.

Arms of George Mainwaring, recorded 1643 to 'Mainwaring of Cheshire, Captain of a Troop': Arms: Argent, 2 bars gules.
Mainwaring memorial at Chester for William Mainwaring (1616-1645)
The shield at the top of the memorial is divided in two, with similar but different designs. The left has a white ground with two red bars; the formal blazon would be argent two bars gules, for cadency a crescent. The right hand side has six bars alternately white and red, blazoned as barry of six, argent and gules.
The traditional shield of the family is white with two red bars, so the left hand side of the shield displayed here is that of Mainwaring. The small crescent in the centre is a mark of cadency indicating a second son. Though William was the eldest son of his father Edmund, Edmund was a second son.
The right hand side of the shield is the arms of William's wife's Wase family; it is a coincidence the arms are so similar.
Arms of Roger (Mainwaring) de Mainwaring (1130-abt.1195)
Argent, two bars Gules, Crest: An ass's head erased Argent, haltered Or[3]
William Mainwaring (abt.1286-bef.1340)
This image of the arms of William de Mainwaring goves no authority.

Notable Mainwarings

  • Henry Mainwaring (1587-1653): Sir Henry Mainwaring was an English lawyer, soldier, author, seaman and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1621 to 1622. He was for a time a pirate based in Newfoundland and then a naval officer with the Royal Navy.

Wikipedia

There are more than 29 members of the family who have Wikipedia articles.

See Mainwarings on Wikipedia|Research page for Mainwarings on Wikipedia

Tasks

Sources

  1. ↑ Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. page 213.
  2. ↑ MANNERING? (1936, August 15). The Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld. : 1872 - 1947), p. 16. Retrieved December 2, 2023, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article184024599
  3. ↑ Robert Glover, The Visitation of Cheshire in the Year 1580, with numerous additions and continations, inculding those from The Visitation of Cheshire made in the Year 1566, with an appendix containing The Visitation of a Part of Cheshire in the Year 1533. Page 164. (London, England: The Harleian Society, 1882); digital image: (https://archive.org/details/visitationchesh01fellgoog).




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Arms of George Mainwaring, recorded 1643 to 'Mainwaring of Cheshire, Captain of a Troop': Arms: Argent, 2 bars gules.
Arms of George Mainwaring, recorded 1643 to 'Mainwaring of Cheshire, Captain of a Troop': Arms: Argent, 2 bars gules.
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