See also a discussion on the Family Names of Headley
Contact me if you have an interest in any of these surnames, particularly in relation to Headley parish – we may be able to put you in touch with others who share your interest.
Albery/Albury
Alden/Allden
Aldred
Aldridge
Alford
Arford
Armitage
Attfield
Aylward
Aylwin
Baigeant/Baigent
Baker — see website
of John Partington
Balfre/Balfrey/Balfry
Barfoot
Barnett
Bartholomew
Beagley
Belton
Benham
Bennett
Bentley
Bettesworth
Bicknal/Bicknell
Blackman
Blanchard
Bone
Bowden
Boxal/Boxall/Boxold
Boyt
Brake
Brambly/Brambley/Bramley
Breda/Brider
Bridger
Briggs
Bright
Brittain
Britton
Bryant
Bulley
Burningham
Burrows
Butler
Caplen/Caplin,
Chalcraft
Chandler
Channell
Chase
Chiverton
Christmas
Clear/Clere
Collens/Collins
Clift/Cliff/Clyffe,
Cook/Cooke
Coombes/Combes/Combs
Cooper
Cornish
Cornwall
Courtnage
Cover
Croucher
Curtis
Cutting
Daubeney
Davies
Day
Dean
Dedman/Deadman/Dudman
Denyer
Deverall
Diggens/Dickens
Dickinson
Draper
Dudman
Eade/Eads/Ede/Edds
Earl/Earle/Erle
Eggar
Elson/Elstone
Etherington/Ethrington
Evans
Faithfull
Fairmainer/Fairmanner
Fauntleroy
Fewtrell
Fielder/Atfield
Fifield/Fyfield
Figg
Fisher
Fitt
Ford/Foard
Fullick/Fulluck — see website
of Jennifer Crawford
Fyfield/Fifield
Gamblen/Gamblin
Gardiner/Gardner
Garnett
Gatcum
Gatehouse
Gauntlett
Gill
Glaysher/Glazier
Goddard
Gordon
Gosden
Grayshott
Haben
Hack
Hahn
Hall
Hammond
Harding
Hardy
Harnett
Harris
Harrison
Hatt
Hayden
Headley
Heath/Heather
Heighes/Hayes
Hibberd
Hill
Hoar/Hoare
Holdaway
Holt
Honess
Hooke
Hothen
Hounsham/Hounsom
House
Hubbuck
Hunt
Huntingford
Hurlbut/Hurlebut/Hurlebat
I'Anson
Impett
James
Jetten/Jetton
Jones
Keen
Keeping
Kemp
King
Kingshott — see website
of Jan Kingshott
Kneller
Knight
Lacey
Langford
Larby
Legg
Lemon/Lemmon
Lickfold — see website
of Gordon Lickfold
Lintott
Loe
Lovegrove
Lovelock
Luff
Madgwick
Marden
Marner
Marshall
Matthews
McCaughan
Messingham/Missingham — see website
of Trudy Messingham
Mills
Moore/Moorey/Morer/Atmoor
Moss
Mullard
Nelson
Newland
Newman
Nicolai
Norris
North
Oland
Over
Pacy/Pacey
Painter
Parfait/Parfect
Parker
Patrick
Pexall
Phillips
Philps
Pickett/Piggott
Pim/Pimm/Pym
Pink
Plaistow/Plasto
Pook
Pym
Reeves
Remnant
Ribbens
Rippon
Roe
Rook/Rooke
Rooney
Rowswell
Saunders
Scarrott
Shrub/Shrubb
Skidmore
Slade
Sleigh
Small
Smith
Smithies
Spiers
Spooner
Squarey
Stacy/Stacey
Stapeley/Stapley
Stevens
Strugnell
Sturt
Surrett
Suter/Souter/Sowter
Sutton
Swan/Swann
Taylor
Thorne
Tilbury
Trigg/Triggs
Trussler/Trusler,
Tuckey
Tull
Turner
Tyndall
Viney
Voller/Valler
Walker
Wallace
Warner
Warren
Watts
West
White
Whiting
Wilkes
Windibank
Wishakt
Woodbourne
Woodger
Woodhouse
Woods
Woodthorpe
Wright
Wrighting
Yeoman
Young
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See also List of Requests
In any locality, certain family surnames names recur through the years from the beginning of available records while others are relative 'newcomers' to the area.
Looking at the Winchester Pipe Roll records from AD1210, we see personal names in Headley such as Hugo de Putum, Philip 'the miller', William Palmer, Henry Covenant and Hugh Sewarde.
At this time surnames were not settled, and tended to relate to a person's actual occupation or location. Thus, Hugo probably lived by a well (the Latin for well being putum) while Philip was described by his trade as miller.
It is unlikely that descendants of these two men would have retained the surnames Wells and Miller in future generations, unless they happened to stay living by the well or continued to be millers until probably the 1400s when surnames began to become more fixed as family names.
However, as spelling was inconsistent before about the mid-1800s, even when surnames became fixed it is sometimes difficult to decide which variations of a name to consider as a family line when tracing from these early times.
It gives us a particular problem nowadays when we try to 'sort' a computer file of, say, baptisms, marriages and burials into sequence by surname, since the machine cannot easily identify the differences in spelling as relating to the same family.
One technical solution to this is for the researcher to decide on a particular spelling of a surname and to add this consistently as a separate entry to his records. He may than sequence his records by this entry rather than by the original erratic spelling.
Thus, in Headley, we see that Clere, Cleer, Cleere, and Clear are all (clearly!) from one and the same family in the burial records from the 1500s through to the 1800s.
The same may be said of Fifield, Fiffel and Fyfield in the early 1800s, and of Pickett and Piggott (try saying both in a Hampshire accent) during the same period.
While this does indeed provide a practical solution up to a point, the researcher must take care, particularly in more recent years, not to cluster separate families together who have no close relationship to each other. From around the end of the 1800s, as literacy becomes more prevalent, different spellings of surnames (for example Fifield and Fyfield) start to become significant and may indeed indicate separate lines on a genealogical tree.
A particular case in point is that of Alden and Allden. This surname arrived in Headley in both forms during the late 1800s, but the two spellings belong to completely different families.
Bearing these provisos in mind, the following list shows some of the more significant variations in Headley surnames which might reasonably be considered in the past to have belonged to the same family, and have in some files been sorted together:–
Alowe, Eloo, Alow, Elo, Aylo
Awncell, Ansell, Awnshell, Awnsell, Aunsell, Annsell
Baldyn, Baldwyn, Baldin, Bowlden, Bawlden, Baldwin, Bawlden, Balden
Boxall, Boxolde, Boxold, Boxole, Boxwell, Boxal
Bruer, Bruar, Brewer
Burrows, Burrow, Boroughs, Borough
Cane, Cain, Caine, Kane [possibly also some of Keen, Kene]
Chyld, Chiles, Childs, Chiles, Chyles, Childe
Chytte, Chetey, Chitte, Chette, Chytty, Chittie, Chitty
Clare, Clere, Cleer, Cleere, Clear
Collense, Collence, Collens, Collins
Combs, Combes, Coombs, Coombes
Curteys, Curtis
Dedman, Dudman, Deadman
Ede, Edde, Eade, Eads, Eades
Fallower, Fullowar, Falloar, Fallaway, Faloar, Fallour, Vallowarr, Vallower,
Valore, Valoure, Valour, Vallour [note Voller came later
to the parish and may be a different family]
Fiffel, Fifield, Fyfield
Fygg, Fygge, Fig, Figg, Figge
Fysh, Fyshe, Fyche, Fish, ffish, Fishe
Fulluck, Fullock, Fullicke, Fullick
Furnice, Furnace, Furness
Gamblyng, Gamlyn, Gamblyn, Gamlen, Gamblin, Gamblen
Gill, Gyll, Egille [occasionally Hill, Hyll]
Glasier, Glashier, Glazier, Glayshire, Glaysher
Graveselate , Graveschete , Graveshette , Graveshote, and
similar forms in Pipe Rolls before 1539, then: Gracyatt, Gracyott, Grayshot,
Gressytt, Grassott, Grashott, Grayshott
Grym, Grymes, Grimes
Hampden, Hampton
Hayse, Hays, Hayes, Heyes, Heighes [but note that Heighes
usually relates to one particular family]
Hethe, Hethe, Heyth, Heath [and sometimes Heather]
Howse, House
Hugh, Hews, Hewes, Huwes, Hughes
Low, Lowe, Loe
Mathew, Matthew, Matthews
Myll, Mylls, Miles, Mill, Mills
Massingham, Messingham, Missingham
Morare, Moorar, Morar, Morer, Morrer, Moorer, Atmore, Atmoore, Atmoore, Atmoor,
Atmore
Numan, Newman
Norys, Norysh, Norrice, Norris
Perfect, Parfait, Parfect
Petre, Peter, Peters [note Petar is different family]
Phylp, Phylpe, Philp, Philps, Phillips, Philipps, Phillipps, Fylpe, Flipp
Pygott, Piggot, Piggott, Pickett
Robenson, Rabenson, Robeson, Robinson
Shrub, Shrubb, Shrubbe
Stephens, Stevens
Styllway, Stellway, Stellweye, Stillman, Stillwell [probably
all same family]
Trigg, Triggs
Toornar, Tornar, Torner, Toornar, Toorner, Toornor, Towrnare, Turnar, Turnor,
Tourner, Turner
Vycare, Viccarye, Viccarye, Viccary, Vickrye, Vickary, Vickery, Vickry, Vicary
Vollar, Voller
Weaks, Weekes, Weeks
Vinetur, Wynter, Winter
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