as Lords of the manor of Tattenhall. Recorded first as Tatenale in the
of 1086, the place name literally means "nook of land of a man called Tata," from the Old English
Today, Tattenhall is a village and civil parish, 8 miles south-east of Chester. Tatton Hall is a country house in Tatton Park near Knutsford, Cheshire. Tettenhall is a village in within the city of Wolverhampton, now in the West Midlands and was the site of The Battle of Tettenhall where forces of Mercia and Wessex met an army of Northumbrian Vikings on 5 August 910.
This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Tatenell research.
Another 103 words (7 lines of text) covering the years 1180 and 1296 are included under the topic Early Tatenell History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.The English language only became standardized in the last few centuries; therefore,
spelling variations are common among early
Anglo-Saxon names. As the form of the English language changed, even the spelling of literate people's names evolved. Tatenell has been recorded under many different variations, including Tattenhall, Tatnall, Tatnell and others.
For many English families, the political and religious disarray that shrouded
England made the far away New World an attractive prospect. On cramped disease-ridden ships, thousands migrated to those British colonies that would eventually become Canada and the United States. Those hardy settlers that survived the journey often went on to make important contributions to the emerging nations in which they landed. Analysis of immigration records indicates that some of the first North American immigrants bore the name Tatenell or a variant listed above: Thomas Tattnell settled in Maryland in 1684.