The ancient
Anglo-Saxon culture once found in Britain is the soil from which the many generations of the Alldrorde family have grown. The name Alldrorde was given to a member of the family who was a person noted for giving good counsel.
Early Origins of the Alldrorde family
The surname Alldrorde was first found in
Cambridgeshire, at Aldreth, a hamlet that dates back to 1170 when it was listed as Alrehetha in the
Pipe Rolls. The name literally means "landing-place by the alders" from the Old English words for "alor" and "hyth."
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Mills, A.D., Dictionary of English Place-Names. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. Print. (ISBN 0-19-869156-4) However the surname dates back further and is recorded in the
Domesday Book as Aldreth and Ealdred as holding lands under the Norman King William soon after the Conquest in 1086. In fact, Aldred was a famous ecclesiastic, who was Bishop of York from 1044-1060, and Archbishop of York from 1060-1069, and it was he who crowned the Conqueror.
Early History of the Alldrorde family
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Alldrorde 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 Alldrorde family name include Aldred, Aldreth, Aldret and others.
Early Notables of the Alldrorde family (pre 1700)
Notables of the family at this time include John Eldred (1552-1632), an English traveler and merchant. Born in New Buckenham,
Norfolk, after his parents moved from
Suffolk, he traveled to Tripoli and returned home with a ship full of goods that were sold making him a wealthy man with a large...
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Migration of the Alldrorde family to the New World and Oceana
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 Alldrorde surname or a spelling variation of the name include : Robert Aldred, who settled in Virginia in 1635; William Aldred arrived in Philadelphia in 1834 and moved westward.