Early Origins of the Tatenell family
The surname Tatenell was first found in
Cheshire where they held a
family seat as Lords of the manor of Tattenhall. Recorded first as Tatenale in the
Domesday Book of 1086, the place name literally means "nook of land of a man called Tata," from the Old English
personal name + "halh."
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Mills, A.D., Dictionary of English Place-Names. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. Print. (ISBN 0-19-869156-4) 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.
Early History of the Tatenell family
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Tatenell Spelling Variations
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.
Early Notables of the Tatenell family (pre 1700)
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Migration of the Tatenell family to Ireland
Some of the Tatenell family moved to
Ireland, but this topic is not covered in this excerpt.
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Migration of the Tatenell family to the New World and Oceana
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.