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Early Origins of the Cuthell family

The surname Cuthell was first found in Wiltshire where Beringarius Cotel was registered in 1084, two years before the Domesday Book of 1086. In Dorset, Adam Cotella was registered there in the Pipe Rolls of 1167. Eilwinus Kutel, Cutel was a Knights Templar in Essex in 1185; and Walter Cotel was listed in the Curia Regis Rolls for Oxfordshire in 1206. 1 "Cuthill or Cuttle is a suburb of Prestonpans, co. Haddington." 2

In Scotland, the Cuthell or Cuthill variants are the most popular as the latter is "a suburb of Prestonpans, East Lothian. Thomas Cuthill and George Cuthill, witnesses, 1536. Steven Cutle was indweller in Edinburgh in 1696, and in 1708 the uppermost stories of the tenement of Mrs. Cuthel were damaged by the fire in Edinburgh. Cuthill was also a surname in Stirling in the eighteenth century. Lawrence Cuthill, [was] burgess of Dumbarton, 1825." 3

Early History of the Cuthell family

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Cuthell Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Cuttle, Cutle, Cuttell, Cuthill, Cuthell, Cuthil and many more.

Early Notables of the Cuthell family

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United States Cuthell migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Cuthell Settlers in United States in the 19th Century
  • John Cuthell, aged 30, who landed in New York in 1812 4


  1. Reaney, P.H and R.M. Wilson, A Dictionary of English Surnames. London: Routledge, 1991. Print. (ISBN 0-415-05737-X)
  2. Lower, Mark Anthony, Patronymica Britannica, A Dictionary of Family Names of the United Kingdom. London: John Russel Smith, 1860. Print.
  3. Black, George F., The Surnames of Scotland Their Origin, Meaning and History. New York: New York Public Library, 1946. Print. (ISBN 0-87104-172-3)
  4. Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)


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