Littleworth History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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England

Etymology of Littleworth

What does the name Littleworth mean?

Littleworth is a name of ancient Anglo-Saxon origin and comes from the family once having lived by a small grove of trees or near a grove of young trees or saplings. The surname Littleworth belongs to the class of topographic surnames, which were given to people who resided near physical features such as hills, streams, churches, or types of trees.

Early Origins of the Littleworth family

The surname Littleworth was first found in Lancashire where they held a family seat from early times and their first records appeared on the early census rolls taken by the early Kings of Britain to determine the rate of taxation of their subjects.

Early History of the Littleworth family

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Littleworth 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 Littleworth family name include Littlewood, Lyttlewood and others.

Early Notables of the Littleworth family

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Littleworth migration to the United States +

For political, religious, and economic reasons, thousands of English families boarded ships for Ireland, Canada, 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 Littleworth surname or a spelling variation of the name include:

Littleworth Settlers in United States in the 18th Century

John Littleworth, who landed in Virginia in 1703 1
Jone Littleworth, who arrived in Virginia in 1723 1

Sources +

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)