![]() ![]() Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling. We make everything from dirt to shirt right here in our Maine and North Carolina. This was dated 1204, in the Assize Rolls of Yorkshire, England. In the same year, a second charter labeled it Laconia. Mason's alone in 1629, he named New Hampshire. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Robert Main. The name first appears in writing in 1622 as a province, in a charter of the Council of New England granting land to Sir Ferdinando Gorges and Captain John Mason. I initially ordered them in late 2020 as Origin Maine was spinning back up their boot production from the initial COVID shutdowns I got the boots in mid-Jan. ![]() ![]() The coat of arms granted in 1685 has the blazon of a blue field, charged with a chevron voided in red, between two fleur de lis in chief and a unicorns head in base. These are my pair of Origin Maine Lincoln boots in their 1861 color, which means brown. It is said that in the year 1895 there were over thirty men called John Mains in the town of Nairn. Workwear, Streetwear, and Fightwear are the core of our business, and we are the first brand to manufacture footwear in Franklin County Maine in the last 30. In Scotland the spelling was originally Mane, generally becoming Main or Mains in the 17th century. The name development includes the recordings of Adam de Meine of Somerset, England in 1205, although he was almost certainly from France, William Asmayns of Lincolnshire in 1255, and Richard le Mayne of Sussex in 1327. As such in pre medieval times it was usually given as a baptismal name of endearment, although later in the Middle Ages when surnames began to be formed from about the 12th century a.d., it was usually a nickname for a very strong man, or given the robust humour of the period, the reverse! However to add to the confusion the name can also be locational from the French province of Maine, whilst the Scottish name holders, the name is particularly popular in Aberdeenshire, are of Viking stock, possibly from Iceland where the spelling is Magnus. However in almost all cases the derivation is from the Roman (Latin) word 'magnus' meaning strength. Recorded as Mane, Main, Maine, Mayne, and the patronymic or locational Mains, this very interesting surname can be English, Scottish, Dutch-Flemish, French, Scandanavian, or German in origin. ![]()
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