Thwing History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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Early Origins of the Thwing family

The surname Thwing was first found in Yorkshire where they held a family seat at Kilton Castle. Thwing is located in the Yorkshire Wolds in the civil parish of Thwing and Octon and dates back to the Domesday Book of 1086 where it was listed as Tuennc, in the hundred of Burton. Literally the place name is derived from the Old English word "thweng" which means "narrow strip of land." 1

About 1220, Sir Robart de Thwenge (Thweng, Thwing, Tweng) was elected by other English Barons to travel to Rome with a complaint against the pontiff in the encroachment of their ecclesiastical rights. The family were elevated to the peerage about 1300 after Marmaduke de Twenge distinguished himself in the Scottish Wars. He was summoned to Parliament as a Baron and the family became one of the senior families in Yorkshire. 2

John Twenge (Saint John of Bridlington, John Thwing, John of Thwing, John Thwing of Bridlington) (1319-1379), born in the village of Thwing was an English saint who was canonized in 1401 by Pope Boniface IX. Nunthorpe, a chapelry, in the parish of Ayton, union of Stokesley held a manor that was bestowed by the Conqueror upon Robert de Brus, and from whom it descended by marriage to the Thweng family. 3

Early History of the Thwing family

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Thwing Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Thwenge, Thweng, Thwing, Thwinge, Twenge, Tweng, Twinge and many more.

Early Notables of the Thwing family

Distinguished members of the family include

Blessed Thomas Thwing (1635-1680) of Heworth Hall, Heworth, Yorkshire, he was an English Roman Catholic priest and martyr, beatified by Pope Pius XI

Thwing migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Thwing Settlers in United States in the 17th Century

Ben Thwing, aged 16, who landed in New England in 1635 aboard the ship "Susan and Ellin", bound for Cambridge 4
Benjamin Thwing, who arrived in Boston, Massachusetts in 1635 4

Contemporary Notables of the name Thwing (post 1700) +

Annie Haven Thwing (1851-1940), American historian and children's author
Charles Franklin Thwing (1853-1937), American clergyman and educator

Citations +

Mills, A.D., Dictionary of English Place-Names. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. Print. (ISBN 0-19-869156-4)
Smith, George (ed), Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1885-1900. Print
Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England. Institute of Historical Research, 1848, Print.
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)