Buckworth History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

Origins Available:
England

The name Buckworth is of Anglo-Saxon origin and came from when a family lived at Buckworth, in Huntingdonshire, a village near Alconbury west of Huntingdon. Alternatively, Buckworth was a hundred (a geographic division dating back to the Saxons) located in Surrey. This reference dates back to the Domesday Book as Cherchefelle, but in 1199 became known as Reigate.

Early Origins of the Buckworth family

The surname Buckworth was first found in Huntingdonshire or perhaps Surrey, both dating back to circa Domesday Book.

Early History of the Buckworth family

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Buckworth research. Another 85 words (6 lines of text) covering the years 1662, 1697, 1704, 1709 and 1759 are included under the topic Early Buckworth History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Buckworth Spelling Variations

Sound was what guided spelling in the essentially pre-literate Middle Ages, so one person's name was often recorded under several variations during a single lifetime. Also, before the advent of the printing press and the first dictionaries, the English language was not standardized. Therefore, spelling variations were common, even among the names of the most literate people. Known variations of the Buckworth family name include Buckworth, Buckworthe and others.

Early Notables of the Buckworth family

Notables of the family at this time include

Sir John Buckworth, 1st Baronet (1662-1709) High Sheriff of London in 1704, from Surrey, a title created in 1697

Buckworth migration to the United States +

For political, religious, and economic reasons, thousands of English families boarded ships for Ireland, the Canadas, the America colonies, and many of smaller tropical colonies in the hope of finding better lives abroad. Although the passage on the cramped, dank ships caused many to arrive in the New World diseased and starving, those families that survived the trip often went on to make valuable contributions to those new societies to which they arrived. Early immigrants bearing the Buckworth surname or a spelling variation of the name include :

Buckworth Settlers in United States in the 17th Century

John Buckworth, who arrived in Virginia in 1638 1
Thomas Buckworth, who landed in Maryland in 1671 1

Buckworth migration to West Indies +

The British first settled the British West Indies around 1604. They made many attempts but failed in some to establish settlements on the Islands including Saint Lucia and Grenada. By 1627 they had managed to establish settlements on St. Kitts (St. Christopher) and Barbados, but by 1641 the Spanish had moved in and destroyed some of these including those at Providence Island. The British continued to expand the settlements including setting the First Federation in the British West Indies by 1674; some of the islands include Barbados, Bermuda, Cayman Island, Turks and Caicos, Jamaica and Belize then known as British Honduras. By the 1960's many of the islands became independent after the West Indies Federation which existed from 1958 to 1962 failed due to internal political conflicts. After this a number of Eastern Caribbean islands formed a free association. 2

Buckworth Settlers in West Indies in the 17th Century

Richard Buckworth, who settled in Barbados with his wife and servants in 1680

Contemporary Notables of the name Buckworth (post 1700) +

Gerald Allan Buckworth, American Republican politician, Elected Delaware State House of Representatives 34th District 1998 3
A. D. Buckworth (b. 1835), American Republican politician, Real estate business; Member of Nebraska State Senate, 1885-86 3
A D Buckworth (b. 1835), American businessman and politician, Nebraska state senator (1885-86)
Dr. Janet Buckworth, Associate Professor in the School of Physical Activity and Educational Services at Ohio State University
Walter Buckworth, Civil Engineer

Citations +

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)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_West_Indies
The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2015, November 3) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html