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Note: MEANING OF TUTHILL NAME: http://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Tuttle The word Tuthill, meaning a conical hill, is a commonplace name in England, of remote antiquity. From one or more places named Tuthill, the surname Tuthill or Tuttle is derived, after a prevalent custom in the twelfth century, and later, when surnames came into use in England. The family has been especially prominent in Devonshire, England. Recorded as Tuttle, Tuttell, Tutill, Tothull, Toothill, and others this is an English surname. It is either a topographical name for a person who lived by a hill used as a look-out station, from the Olde English pre 7th Century "tot", akin to "totian", meaning to peer, and "hyll", a hill, or it is a locational name from any of the various places named with these elements. These include: Toot Hill in the counties of Essex, Hampshire, and Hertfordshire; Tothill in Lincolnshire, and Middlesex; Tootle Height in Lancashire; or Tuttle Hill in Warwickshire. A quotation from "Promptorium Parvulorum", a medieval dictionary, reads "Totehylle, or hey place of Lokynge", and in his History of East Cheshire, Earwaker mentions that "near the Forest Chapel is a small quadrangular Roman camp, situate on a hill called Toot-hill", indicating that the Romans probably used the hill as a look-out against the approach of the enemy. Early recordings of the surname include: Custance Totel of Cambridgeshire, in the Hundred Rolls of 1273; Roger Tothull of Oxfordshire in the same year, and Johannes de Totehill, noted in the 1379 Poll Tax Returns of Yorkshire. The first recorded spelling of the family name is believed to be that of Gilbert de Totehille. This was dated 1185, in the "Knights Templars" register for the county of Warwickshire, during the reign of King Henry 11 of England, 1154 - 1189. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop", often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling. Read more: http://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Tuttle#ixzz2TCiYE8jy ---------------- HISTORY/GENEALOGY: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dtuttle/GenPages/NotesOnTheEarlyTuttles.htm Totehyll-Tootill-Tuttell of Northampton, England The earliest well-researched ancestor of my American Tuttle line is Thomas Totehyll born around 1506 in County Northampton, England. There are records of scattered individuals, who may or may not be part of the same line, as far back as the Domesday Book, a census of landowners taken in the 11th century. Among the descendents of Thomas Totehyll are all of the Tuttells who emigrated to America in 1635 on the ship Planter. Connections to the other main lines have not been positively established, but it is likely that Thomas was related in some fashion to the Tuthills of Devonshire. THOMAS TOTEHYLL, of Woodford, co Northampton, England, born about 1506. He was assessed for the subsidy there, 10 Nov 1544. He was a witness to the wills of Robert Crosse, 1524, Robert Pashler, 1538, Sir William Longe, 1541, Elizabeth Whitbred, 1552 and Richard Lyncoln, 1545. Probably father of Richard Tootill, b. about 1530 Woodford, Northampton Co, England. ------------------------------- Genealogical Records: Early New England Settlers, 1600s-1800s Ancestral Heads of NE Families, Surnames, S-T page 245 From the ancient tothills of England, meaning "hill of God". Locally, a town in Caernarvon, Wales, near the coast. From the word Tuthill, signifying a conicall hills, the name being given in early times to a numboer of locations in England. The permanent seat of the family was in Devonshire, England. William Totyl was Lord Mayor of Exeter in 1552. --------------------- http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dtuttle/GenPages/index.html THOMAS TOTEHYLL / TOWTILL / TOOTILL, born c1506 in Woodford, Northampton, England; [probably] son of Humphrey TOTEHYLL born 1482 & Maud __?__ born 1485; died ____ in Woodford, Northampton, England. Assessed for the subsidy in Woodford, Northampton, 10-Nov-1544. Witness to the wills of Robert Crosse, 1524, Robert Pashler, 1538, Sir William Longe, 1541, Richard Lyncoln, 1545, and Elizabeth Whitbred, 1552. Married 1529 in Woodford, Northampton, to ?Elizabeth MASON; born 1510 in County Northampton, England; daughter of _____ MASON & __?__; died _____. Children of Thomas & ?Elizabeth: Richard Tootill, born 15-Jun-1530; married c1555 to Elizabeth LYNCOLN, 7 children; died 1589/90 in Petersborough, England. Thomas Tootill; John Tootill; Simon Tootill; William Tootill; --------------------
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