Meaning of dredge2/12/2024 ![]() ![]() Soon after the Norman invasion in 1066 the name made its appearance in the Isle of Wight and Hampshire area in the south of England. The surname comes from the Anglo-Saxon word "draca" which means a dragon or sea serpent. The surname Dredge was first found in Hampshire where they held a family seat from ancient times. Sir Francis shall bear on his coat a ship carrying reversed on its flag the wyvern gules.'Įventually, unwilling to mortify so worthy a man as Sir Bernard, she granted to Sir Francis an entirely different coat." ![]() 'Well,' said the Queen, 'I will settle the dispute. Sir Francis Drake, the navigator, assumed the arms, though he could establish no relationship, and a contest of words ensued in the presence of Queen Elizabeth between Sir Bernard Drake of Ashe and the sailor. In this instance it is probable that the armorial bearing was occasioned by the name, and that some legend lay behind the name. "The drake gules (red) was the cognizance of the ancient family of Drake of Ashe, near Axminster. The compounds, "fire-drake," and "hell-drake," become intelligible when the latter syllable is understood to mean, not the harmless and familiar denizen of the pool, but the ' fell dragoun ' of medieval romance. Several families of Drake bear as arms the wyvern, or two-legged dragon and it is worthy of remark that in giving to various pieces of cannon the names of monsters and animals of prey, that of ' drake' was assigned to a peculiar species of gun, as those of caliver, basilisk, culverin, fawconet, saker-all appellations of serpents and rapacious birds-were to others. Le Dragun, the Anglo-Norman form, occurs in the Hundredorum Rolls, but the nearest approach to this that I have seen in modem times is Drago, a name which existed at Ely about a century since. The name is "not from the waterfowl, but from Anglo-Saxon draca (Latin draco,) a dragon. The surname Dredge is derived from the Old English word draca or from the Old Danish word draki, which both mean dragon. ![]() It was a name for a person who was a a fierce, powerful person. Dredge is an ancient name dating from the times of the Anglo-Saxon tribes of Britain. ![]()
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