Early Origins of the Lovetott family
The surname Lovetott was first found in
Nottingham at Worksop, a market-town and parish, and the head of a union, in the Hatfield division of the
wapentake of Bassetlaw. "This place, which in
Domesday Book is written Witchesope, and in other records of that period Wyrksoppe and Wirkensop, appears to have belonged, prior to the Conquest, to Elsi, a Saxon nobleman. It was afterwards granted by the Conqueror to Roger de Busli, and subsequently became the property of William de Lovetot, who, in the reign of Henry I., founded here a priory for Canons regular of the order of St. Augustine, the prior of which was, in the time of Henry III., summoned to parliament. After a considerable period, it passed, by the marriage of the heiress of the Lovetots, to the family of Furnival."
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Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England. Institute of Historical Research, 1848, Print.
Early History of the Lovetott family
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Lovetott Spelling Variations
Spelling variations of this family name include: Lovetoft, Lovetott, Lovetot, Livetot and others.
Early Notables of the Lovetott family (pre 1700)
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Migration of the Lovetott family to the New World and Oceana
Some of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: the name represented in many forms and recorded from the mid 17th century in the great migration from Europe. Migrants settled in the eastern seaboard from Newfoundland, to Maine, to Virginia, the Carolinas, and to the islands..