| ![Show Contents]() Twenge History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
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 England Early Origins of the Twenge familyThe surname Twenge 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 Twenge familyThis web page shows only a small excerpt of our Twenge research. Another 101 words (7 lines of text) covering the years 1304, 1374, 1505, 1543, 1560, 1579, 1581, 1613, 1635 and 1680 are included under the topic Early Twenge History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. Twenge Spelling VariationsSpelling variations of this family name include: Thwenge, Thweng, Thwing, Thwinge, Twenge, Tweng, Twinge and many more. Early Notables of the Twenge familyDistinguished members of the family include John Twyne (c.1505-1581), an English schoolmaster, scholar and author, and also Member of Parliament for Canterbury. His son, Thomas Twyne (1543-1613) was an Elizabethan translator and a physician of Lewes in Sussex, best known for completing Thomas Phaer's translation of Virgil's Aeneid into English verse after Phaer's...
Another 53 words (4 lines of text) are included under the topic Early Twenge Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. Migration of the Twenge familySome of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: Benjamin Thwing who settled in Cambridge Massachusetts in 1635; T. Twing settled in San Francisco Cal. in 1852.
- 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.
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