Tukey Surname, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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The founding heritage of the Tukey family is in the Anglo-Saxon culture that once dominated in Britain. The name Tukey comes from when one of the family worked as a fuller, whose job it was to scour and thicken raw cloth by beating it and trampling it in water having derived from the Old English word tucian, which originally meant to torment and later gained the meaning to tuck or to full. Occasionally, the name Tukey was a nickname surname given to a courageous person.

Tukey Early Origins

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The surname Tukey was first found in Devon where they held a family seat from very ancient times.

Tukey Spelling Variations

The first dictionaries that appeared in the last few hundred years did much to standardize the English language. Before that time, spelling variations in names were a common occurrence. The language was changing, incorporating pieces of other languages, and the spelling of names changed with it. Tukey has been spelled many different ways, including Tucker, Tooker, Toker, Tokker and others.

Tukey Early History

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Tukey research. Another 243 words (17 lines of text) covering the years 1741, 1565, 1623, 1601, 1614, 1592, 1664, 1654, 1664, 1625 and 1676 are included under the topic Early Tukey History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Tukey Early Notables (pre 1700)

Notables of the family at this time include Admiral Thomas Tucker; Giles Tooker (c 1565-1623), an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1601 and 1614; Edward Tooker (c. 1592-1664), an...

Another 35 words (2 lines of text) are included under the topic Early Tukey Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Tukey In Ireland

Some of the Tukey family moved to Ireland, but this topic is not covered in this excerpt. Another 37 words (3 lines of text) about their life in Ireland is included in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

The Great Migration

Thousands of English families in this era began to emigrate the New World in search of land and freedom from religious and political persecution. Although the passage was expensive and the ships were dark, crowded, and unsafe, those who made the voyage safely were rewarded with opportunities unavailable to them in their homeland. Research into passenger and immigration lists has revealed some of the very first Tukeys to arrive in North America:

Tukey Settlers in United States in the 20th Century

Grace M. Tukey, aged 46, who emigrated to Oroville, Washington, in 1913
Chas. W. Tukey, aged 57, who settled in Arlingdon, Massachusetts, in 1914

Contemporary Notables of the name Tukey (post 1700)

Claude C. Tukey, American Messman in R.V. Hero in 1968, eponym of Tukey Island, Antarctica
Francis Tukey (1814-1867), American City Marshal of Boston, Massachusetts from 1846 to 1852
Lemuel Tukey, American tavern owner and tax collector from the Back Cove area of Portland, eponym of Tukey's Bridge, Portland
John Wilder Tukey (1915-2000), American statistician best known for development of the FFT algorithm and box plot, eponym of Tukey's test, awarded the IEEE Medal of Honor in 1982

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Citations

^ Hanks, Patricia and Flavia Hodges, A Dictionary of Surnames. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. Print. (ISBN 0-19-211592-8)

Other References

Bardsley, C.W. A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames: With Special American Instances. Wiltshire: Heraldry Today, 1901. Print. (ISBN 0-900455-44-6).
Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Galveston Texas 1896-1951. National Archives Washington DC. Print.
Mills, A.D. Dictionary of English Place-Names. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. Print. (ISBN 0-19-869156-4).
Weis, Frederick Lewis, Walter Lee Sheppard and David Faris. Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists Who Came to New England Between 1623 and 1650 7th Edition. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1992. Print. (ISBN 0806313676).
Bolton, Charles Knowles. Bolton's American Armory. Baltimore: Heraldic Book Company, 1964. Print.
Hinde, Thomas Ed. The Domesday Book England's Heritage Then and Now. Surrey: Colour Library Books, 1995. Print. (ISBN 1-85833-440-3).
Skordas, Guest. Ed. The Early Settlers of Maryland an Index to Names or Immigrants Complied from Records of Land Patents 1633-1680 in the Hall of Records Annapolis, Maryland. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1968. Print.
Bullock, L.G. Historical Map of England and Wales. Edinburgh: Bartholomew and Son, 1971. Print.
Elster, Robert J. International Who's Who. London: Europa/Routledge. Print.
Innes, Thomas and Learney. The Tartans of the Clans and Families of Scotland 1st Edition. Edinburgh: W & A. K. Johnston Limited, 1938. Print.
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The Tukey Family Crest was acquired from the Houseofnames.com archives. The Tukey Family Crest was drawn according to heraldic standards based on published blazons. We generally include the oldest published family crest once associated with each surname.

This page was last modified on 27 August 2015 at 16:42.