Tredway History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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Early Origins of the Tredway family

The surname Tredway was first found in Suffolk where Thomas Treddewel held estates c. 1248. 1

The name literally means "dweller at a path, or road, by a spring or stream." 2 "The Tredwells or Treadwells are also represented in Kent. The name of Treadwell occurred in Enstone parish 200 years ago. T. Treadwell was mayor of Oxford in 1758." 3

Up in Scotland, Saint Triduana, also known as Trodline, Tredwell, and in Norse as Trøllhaena, was an early Christian woman who was associated with various places in Scotland. It is thought she probably lived sometime between the 4th and 8th centuries. St Tredwell's Chapel, Papa Westray is a renowned Orkney pilgrimage-centre, standing on a conical mound on a small peninsula. Here, late medieval walls can be seen, built over Iron Age ruins.

Early History of the Tredway family

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Tredway research. Another 104 words (7 lines of text) covering the years 1455, 1487, 1593, 1603, 1604, 1615, 1624, 1642 and 1677 are included under the topic Early Tredway History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Tredway Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Treadwell, Treadway, Threadwell, Tredway, Threadway, Tredway, Tradewell, Tradway and many more.

Early Notables of the Tredway family

Distinguished members of the family include

Lady Lettice Mary Tredway (1593-1677), an English abbess in Paris, the daughter of Sir Walter Tredway of Beckley, Buckinghamshire, and afterwards of Northamptonshire...

Tredway migration to New Zealand +

Emigration to New Zealand followed in the footsteps of the European explorers, such as Captain Cook (1769-70): first came sealers, whalers, missionaries, and traders. By 1838, the British New Zealand Company had begun buying land from the Maori tribes, and selling it to settlers, and, after the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840, many British families set out on the arduous six month journey from Britain to Aotearoa to start a new life. Early immigrants include:

Tredway Settlers in New Zealand in the 19th Century

Elizabeth Tredway, who arrived in Lyttelton, New Zealand aboard the ship "Blairgowrie" in 1875
Mrs. Elizabeth Tredway, (b. 1840), aged 35, Cornish servant departing on 29th April 1875 aboard the ship "Blairgowrie" arriving in Lyttelton, Canterbury, New Zealand on 22nd August 1875 4

Citations +

Reaney, P.H and R.M. Wilson, A Dictionary of English Surnames. London: Routledge, 1991. Print. (ISBN 0-415-05737-X)
Smith, Eldson Coles, New Dictionary of American Family Names New York: Harper & Row, 1956. Print
Guppy, Henry Brougham, Homes of Family Names in Great Britain. 1890. Print.
Cornwall Online Parish Clerks. (Retrieved 2018, April 30). Emigrants to Lyttelton 1858-84 [PDF]. Retrieved from http://www.opc-cornwall.org/Resc/pdfs/new_zealand_assisted.pdf