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Early Origins of the Tytherleigh family

The surname Tytherleigh was first found in Devon at Tytherleigh, a small village in the civil parish of Chardstock. Originally in Dorset, the place name was derived from the Old English word tiedre, meaning "thin" or "tender" and leah which meant "woodland," collectively "thin or tender woodland." Tytherleigh Manor was home to the Tytherleigh family from about 1220 to 1729.

Early History of the Tytherleigh family

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Tytherleigh Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Titherley, Tiderley, Tytherleigh, Tytherley, Titherly, Tytherly, Titherleigh, Tetherly, Tetherleigh, Tetherley, Titterley, Titerley and many more.

Early Notables of the Tytherleigh family

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Tytherleigh migration to Australia +

Tytherleigh Settlers in Australia in the 19th Century
  • Mrs. Mary Tytherleigh, (b. 1832), aged 33, Cornish dressmaker, from Falmouth, Cornwall, UK travelling aboard the ship "Himalaya" arriving in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia on 3rd May 1865 1
  • Miss Ellen Tytherleigh, (b. 1855), aged 10, English settler, from Southampton, Hants, England, UK travelling aboard the ship "Himalaya" arriving in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia on 3rd May 1865 1
  • Mr. Francis Tytherleigh, (b. 1859), aged 6, English settler, from Southampton, Hants, England, UK travelling aboard the ship "Himalaya" arriving in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia on 3rd May 1865 1
  • Mr. Henry Tytherleigh, (b. 1861), aged 4, English settler, from Southampton, Hants, England, UK travelling aboard the ship "Himalaya" arriving in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia on 3rd May 1865 1
  • Mr. Thomas Tytherleigh, (b. 1862), aged 3, English settler, from Southampton, Hants, England, UK travelling aboard the ship "Himalaya" arriving in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia on 3rd May 1865 1

Contemporary Notables of the name Tytherleigh (post 1700) +

  • John Tytherleigh, Australian businessman and first chairman of the City of Caloundra, South East Queensland in 1912


  1. Cornwall Online Parish Clerks. (Retrieved 2018, April 19). Emigrants to Australia NSW 1860 -88 [PDF]. Retrieved from http://www.opc-cornwall.org/Resc/pdfs/nsw_passenger_lists_1860_88.pdf


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