The Angilly Family Crest
The Angilly Family name evolved in Europe in Medieval times. Variations
of it still exist in Italy (spelled Angeli) and France (Angelli). The Crest
depicts an angel holding a lily (The French word for lily being "li").
During the 1500's part of the family migrated to England where the spelling
was changed to Angilly. At the close of the 1800's four brothers emigrated
to America and started the local branch of the family. All Angilly's in
America are decendents of these four brothers.
The Crest depected on this page was made for me by the "1776"
House which used to be on Mass. Ave. across the street from Symphony Hall.
It was part of a small group of shops torn down to make the Christian Science
Theme Park. The design of the crest is based on a description their library
of Heraldry (that's the "1776" people not the Christian Scientists),
and is probably from the French version of the Name. For a small price
they would create a wooden plaque with a family crest painted on it which
you can pretend is yours.
Their are no Angilly's in Who's Who, or the encyclopedia, although there
is a Richard Angilly listed in Books in Print who apparently writes
books of Zen poetry. There is an Arthur Angilly listed in the Library of
Congress for a book on insurance office design. And there was the Italian
actress Pier Angeli who was in several films in the 50's and 60's before
comitting suicide.
Recently I have been contacted by John Angilly who lives with his family
in Crowley, in Lancashire, England. We compared family histories
and found that we have some ancestors in common. He says that there
are still a few Angilly's living over in the old country and we hope to
compile our joint histories into one big chart (that is if my brother Doug
gets off his duff and figures out how the Geneology software works).
The Ancient History of the Distinguished Surname Angilly
An alternative
family history has just been compiled by a crack group of Canadian
geneologists, and it's so big it had to have its own page. There's a different
coat of arms, and a history going back to the Norman Conquest, and the
good news is "No Angilly's emigrated to Ireland".
The Angilly Family Curse
According to an old family legend, during the 1700's one of our ancestors,
Frederick Angilly was an executive aide to the Earl of Sandwich. When he
retired at age 87, the Earl named the recently invented peanut butter sandwich
after him, (after all it was cheaper than a pension). Frederick received
no royalties as the Earl never got around to copyrighting the sandwich.
Peanut Butter Angilly
(the curse isn't the sandwich, it's this lame joke.).
