| ![Show Contents]() Bouverie History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
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Early Origins of the Bouverie familyThe surname Bouverie was first found in Staffordshire where they held a family seat as Lords of the Manor. After the Battle of Hastings in 1066, William, Duke of Normandy, having prevailed over King Harold, granted most of Britain to his many victorious Barons. It was not uncommon to find a Baron, or a Bishop, with 60 or more Lordships scattered throughout the country. These he gave to his sons, nephews and other junior lines of his family and they became known as under-tenants. They adopted the Norman system of surnames which identified the under-tenant with his holdings so as to distinguish him from the senior stem of the family. After many rebellious wars between his Barons, Duke William, commissioned a census of all England to determine in 1086, settling once and for all, who held which land. He called the census the Domesday Book, 1 indicating that those holders registered would hold the land until the end of time. Hence, conjecturally, the surname is descended from the tenant of the lands in Staffordshire and who was recorded in the Domesday Book census of 1086. Early History of the Bouverie familyThis web page shows only a small excerpt of our Bouverie research. Another 152 words (11 lines of text) covering the years 1077, 1396, 1510, 1570 and 1600 are included under the topic Early Bouverie History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. Bouverie Spelling VariationsSpelling variations of this family name include: Bouverie, Bouverey, Bouvery, Boffrey, Bofferey, Bofry, Boffry, Bovry, Bovrie, Bouvrie, Boffery, Bofry, De Bouverie and many more. Early Notables of the Bouverie familyMore information is included under the topic Early Bouverie Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. Migration of the Bouverie familySome of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: Paul Boffrey, aged 13, who arrived at Ellis Island, in 1915.
| Contemporary Notables of the name Bouverie (post 1700) | + |
- William Pleydell Bouverie (1779-1869), 3rd Earl Radnor, a distinguished British Whig politician, born in London on 11 May 1779, descended from a Huguenot family which settled in Canterbury in the sixteenth century 2
- Sir Henry Frederick Bouverie (1783-1852), British general, was the third son of the Hon. Edward Bouverie, of Delapré Abbey, near Northampton, M.P. for Salisbury from 1761 to 1775, and for Northampton from 1790 to 1807 3
- Robert Bouverie Mulliner (1830-1902), English managing director of of Mulliner Chiswick
- George Bouverie Goddard (1832-1886), English animal painter, born at Salisbury, 25 Dec. 1832; at the age of ten his drawings were in demand as the productions of youthful genius 3
- Edward Bouverie Pusey (1800-1882), English Regius Professor of Hebrew at Oxford and canon of Christ Church, the second son of Philip Pusey; his father assumed the name Pusey when he inherited the estates of the old Pusey family at Pusey, a small village in Berkshire
- Williams, Dr Ann. And G.H. Martin, Eds., Domesday Book A Complete Translation. London: Penguin, 1992. Print. (ISBN 0-141-00523-8)
- Wikisource contributors. "Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900." Wikisource . Wikisource , 4 Jun. 2018. Web. 5 Feb. 2019
- Wikisource contributors. "Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900." Wikisource . Wikisource , 4 Jun. 2018. Web. 30 June 2020
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