Liddicott History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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England

Early Origins of the Liddicott family

The surname Liddicott was first found in Oxfordshire where they held a family seat as Lords of the Manor. The Saxon influence of English history diminished after the Battle of Hastings in 1066. The language of the courts was French for the next three centuries and the Norman ambience prevailed. But Saxon surnames survived and the family name was first referenced in the 13th century when they held estates in that shire.

Early History of the Liddicott family

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Liddicott Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Litcott, Litelcot, Littlecott, Littelcott, Litecott, Litecot, Litcot, Liddicoat, Lidcoate, Lidicote and many more.

Early Notables of the Liddicott family

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Liddicott 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:

Liddicott Settlers in New Zealand in the 19th Century

Miss Henrietta Liddicott, (b. 1868), aged 8, Cornish settler departing on 7th September 1876 aboard the ship "Rangitiki" arriving in Lyttelton, Canterbury, New Zealand on 11th December 1876 1
Mrs. Mary Liddicott, (b. 1847), aged 29, Cornish settler departing on 7th September 1876 aboard the ship "Rangitiki" arriving in Lyttelton, Canterbury, New Zealand on 11th December 1876 1
Miss Nellie Liddicott, (b. 1871), aged 5, Cornish settler departing on 7th September 1876 aboard the ship "Rangitiki" arriving in Lyttelton, Canterbury, New Zealand on 11th December 1876 1
Mr. Robert Liddicott, (b. 1869), aged 7, Cornish settler departing on 7th September 1876 aboard the ship "Rangitiki" arriving in Lyttelton, Canterbury, New Zealand on 11th December 1876 1
Mr. William Liddicott, (b. 1847), aged 29, Cornish miner departing on 7th September 1876 aboard the ship "Rangitiki" arriving in Lyttelton, Canterbury, New Zealand on 11th December 1876 1

Liddicott 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

Liddicott Settlers in West Indies in the 17th Century

John Liddicott, aged 22, who landed in St Christopher in 1633 3

Citations +

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
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_West_Indies
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)