Where did the Irish Dolphin family come from? Where did the various branches of the family go to?
The surname is derived from the old Norse personal names Dufanan Dolgfinnr. Many Scandinavian personal names were left in the British Isles as a legacy of the Viking raids which plagued the coastal regions of Brit fro the 8th to the 10th centuries and many of these eventually became surnames in Gaelic, the name was Dolfin.
It was found during an investigation of the origins of the name Dolphin that Church officials and medieval scribes often spelled the name as it sounded. For this reason that their are many spelling variations. Dolphin has existed in various shades, Dolphin, Dolfin, Dalphin, Daulphin, Daulphine, Dolphine, Dolfine and many more.
In the 1840's, Ireland experience a mass exodus to North America de to the Great Potato Famine. These families wanted to escape hunger and disease.
Richard Dolphin settled in Virginia in 1618.
Christopher Dolphin who arrived in Maryland in 1657.
More research would have to be done on the name of John Francis Dolphin in Massachusetts. It would be very interesting to know our early history of the Dolphin family
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