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FRAMP~Fon FAMILY THE FRAMP~fON FAMILY WITH ESPECL\L REFEREKCE TO WILLIAM FRAMPTON REGISTER GEXERA.L PR(ffIXCE OF PEXXSYL\-_-\XL\. 1686 _-\~D HIS DESCEXD.-\XTS By J. S. WRIGHTNOUR, D. D. FRAMPTON CREST CHAPTER I I~TRODlTTION \\'hen \Yashington Irving, under the name of Deitrich Knickerbocker, wrote the history of New York City, he felt it incumbent on him, in order to make his history com­ plete, to begin with speculations as to the origin of the earth, and its geological eras, and then, by easy transitions, get down to Adam and £ye, and finally to the earliest inhabitants of l\fanhattan Island. In tracing ,vhat we can learn of the Frampton family, it is not necessary to go quite so far back as this. Nor is the undertaking as difficult as writing the history of the Smith or the Jones family would be. Yet far less common as the name of "Frampton" is, the full list of all who have borne that name, to say nothing of all the descendants .of other names, would fill several volumes the size of this. I shall be content ,vith the general outlines, and re­ sen-e for individual descendants the filling out, at least in most cases, the names of members of their own immediate family. and their descent, \vith the data proYided. For this purpose, blank pages are here and there provided in this book. Suffice it to say that in all the writer's mnstigations, he has never found any one bearing the name, who has been found guilty of any crime, or been incarcerated in jail. except possibly for his religion. The Framptons all seem to have been honest. steady and reliable people. \\'hile none have risen to the _presidency of the L'nited States, or the premiership of (;rnt Britain, yet one of the name has been president of the Royal Academy of Sculptors of Great Britain, and others ha,·e been dis­ tinguished clergymen and writers, as well a" actors, states­ men. bankers and councillors. One had much to do with the founding of the great state of Pennsyhania, as a Yery active member of the ProYincial Council of its great founder, \Yilliam Penn, and Registrar General of the ProYince. But for the most part. the Framptons. and their descendants of other names. haYe been successful merchant:-. farmers, good citizens and honorable men and ,,·omen. Some of them serYed their country nobly on the battle field and in the general service of the army. The descendants of the one with whom this book will he largely occupied. can claim to be members of the "Colonial Sons" or "Colonial Dames," h:· Yirtue of their descent from this early Registrar GenePl of the infant colony. and other,; are entitled to membership. as !'ome of them already are. of the Sons or Daughters of the .-\merican ReYolution. for some of the Framptcns stood ready to defend the liberties of their country at the time of the ReYolutionary \Yar. At all periods of its history. the Lunily has seemed to be deeply religious. \Yhether mem1)ers of the Estahlishecl Church of England. of the Society of Frie11ds ( knO\rn as Quakers). Baptists. ~Iethodists. PresbYterians. etc .. they han been ready to follo,,· the higher light as they ~a,Y it. CH.-\PTER II ORIG IX <>F THE FRX\IPT( J:\'5. The Yery names which people bear. oftentimes throw light on their early history. peculiarities, or occupations. Sometime in the tenth or elennth century. English rnr­ names originated. A.t first men were kno\Yll only hY one name, hut when there came to be so many Johns or Thomases, that it was necessary to distinguish one from the other. the distinction \Yas made either· by :some desaip- tive adjective, such as Strong, \Vhite, Black, or ocCUP,ation, such as Tyler, Carpenter, Smith, or some characteristic, ~uch as Semple ( or simple) meaning a man of plain mind, Wise, Good; or after the name of the father, such as Thompson (Tom's son); Wilson, (Will's son); Johnson, (John's son), \\"illiamson or Williams, (William's son) and so on. The Anglo-Saxon word "Cox" means "son," and so we ha ,·e such names as \\"ilcox. Oftentimes names were giYen from the town or part of the country whence they came. and this was the case with the name "Frampton." The syllable ''ton'' with which so many English names terminate. signified originally a "farmstead." and, in English names, is commonly preceded by an adjectival term clescripti,·e of the situation or character of the place. Thus in the tenth century, and in the Anglo-Saxon language l\tiarston would mean a farmstead by a marsh, ::Vforeton, a farmstead h:· a moor; Dalton. one in a dale or valley; Thornton. one hv a thorn, and so on. Xow the word "£ramp" in early English means "strong," or "firm. So \\·e learn from the name itself that the original Frampton or Framptons were .-\nglo-Saxons. or early English. and about the tenth century some one who came from a fortified farmstead. well defended, was distinguished from other Johns or \\"illiams. hy the fact that he came from such a farm. Yillage. or town. This one ,yas "\\"illiam" from the strongly fortified farmstead; that one ,ms ''John" from the farmstead or town by the moor. and so on. This carries us hack to the time \Yhen the early English ,,·ere disturbed by the incursions of the Picts and Scots from the north. or the Danes from the east. The original Frampton, or Framptons, were Anglo­ Saxon, because the Danish names end in "by" or "thorpe," meaning much the same as "ton." These latter names of localities are still found in the cqasts exposed to Danish mcurs10ns. in those ancient times. A noticeable thing about this suffix "ton." so common in place names in 5 England, is that it is not to be found in German. So the original Frampton, or Framptons, were Anglo-Saxons, and not Celt, or Dane or German, for none of these used the termination "ton." In process of time, when matters of family or family inheritance, and descent, became important, the surname, originally used to distinguish one man from another, was handed down from father to son to distinguish one family from another, and became the common surname for the entire family, the wife, of course, taking the surname of her husband's family. Now the "herald and Genealogist" says: "Framptons can trace their descent, paternally or maternally to );"orman, Welsh, Saxon or Irish ancestors." and it tells us that at the time of the conquest in 1066. they were located in Dorsetshire. "Frampton"' itself. as we haYe seen. is .-\nglo­ Saxon. \Vhether all the Framptons in England are descenclents from this Dorset branch or not, cannot be positiYely known. Our investigations show that they haYe been located in Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and other shires and counties of England, besides Dorset, though they may haYe all been descendents from the Dorset stock. There are ten places in England, in yarious sections. known as ''Frampton." There is a place known as "Frampton Green.'' The map of England shows in Dorsetshire. northwest of Dorchester, the town of ''Frampton.'' There are three parishes known as "Frampton Court." The probabilities are that Dorsetshire was the principal seat of the family, at least. The Encyclopedia Brittanica says that in 1794. a pan­ ment laid during the Roman occupation. of unusual size and beauty, was unearthed at Frampton in Dorset. There is, of course, another explanation of the meaning of the name which. as we "·ill see. is ?om~tjmes spelled "Frameton" as well as "Frampton." It is that the original 6 farmstead or town was surrounded by a fortification, or ~'frame,'' so that it 'was a "framed ton," but the idea is .the same. There are two family crests, for, in the course of English history, every distinguished family had its own ~rest, or coat-of-arms, to distinguish it from others. During the crusades, it was important that, on the shield of the warrior, should be emblazoned his family "crest." It was like spelling out his name for the sake of those who could not read. On the carriage or coach of each distinguished family was emblazoned the family crest, or coat-of-arms, and this is still the case. "Fairburn's Family Crests," a book of 1200 pages, gives the crests of all English or Irish families who have them, and in it we find two Frampton Family Crests. That of the Dorset branch is as follows. {Plate 101). and is thus described: ''Frampton-Dorset-a greyhound sejant, ar .. collared and ringed. gu." ''Sejant" means "Sitting." The other Frampton crest, not of Dorset, is as seen in the Frontispiece. See ''Fairburn's Crests," Plate 18. The complete crest is thus d~scribed: •'Out of a mural coronet, a demi-griffin holding between claws a mullet." These are terms of heraldry and are familiar in England 7 among the aristocracy and landed gentry. .-\. griffin is a fabled creature, whose existence was believed in by many in the middle ages. A demi-griffin is a half griffin. "Mural means 'pertaining to a wall.' " A mullet is a peculiar staff. One cannot help thinking of the lines of the poet Grey, "The boast of heraldry, the pomp of po,ver, Await alike the inevitable hour, The paths of glory lead but to the gran." CHAPTER III FR. ..\1'1PTO::\S 1;,.; E:;-.;GLAXD. (From the "Herald and Genealogist," by J. G. Xichols, 2nd Volume.) "Frampton was a member of that portion of the aristo­ cracy of England which resides in the county of Dorset.
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