EnglandThe name Lovetott originated in Lovetot in lower Normandy, France.
While this place is the origin of the family, two "places in Normandy bear this name, which as a surname in England dates from early Norman times; viz.: Louvetot-pres-Bellencombre, not far from Dieppe, and Louvetot-sur-Caudebec, in the arrondissement of Yvetot." [1]
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. [2]
"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." [2]
We do not how William De Louvetot, who had been a Huntingdonshire Baron, acquired his interest in Yorkshire; nor is there any certainty as to his genealogy; but he is conjectured to have been the son of Ricardus Surdus of Domesday, who was one of two great sub-feudatories of the Earl of Mortaine in this part of England. His coat of arms, Argent a lion rampant parti per fesse Gules and Sable, was allusive to his name Luve (cognate to the German Loewe) being Danish for lion." [3]
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Spelling variations of this family name include: Lovetoft, Lovetott, Lovetot, Livetot and others.
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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..
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