Flavell
One-Name Study

Topics

• About the Flavell One-Name Study
• Variants
• Origin of the surname
• Historical occurrences
• Frequency of the name
• Distribution of the name
• Data
• Links
• Contact Details

About the Flavell One-Name Study

Have been an avid collector of FLAVELL and variants information since about 1980. I hold numerous post 1538 baptism / marriage /burial records as well as records on our United States - Canadia - Australian - and New Zealand cousins, but find myself increasinly drawn to the c 1100 to 1538 period.

Variants

Variants and other spellings include FLAVILL - FLAMILL - FAVILL - FLAMVILL - FLAVELLE - FLAVEL

Many of the FAVELL name found in North Yorkshire, Northants., Huntingdon, + Beds.

Some of those with the FLAVELLE spelling found in Northern Ireland and Canada.

Origin of the surname

'Those of the name Flavell derive their pedigree from one who was the third great officer that came over (c 1066) with William the Conqueror',

so it is said, wrote John Flavel the Bromsgrove (1630) born non conformist preacher in the 17th century.

Historical occurrences

By the year 1100 Robert de Flamville, a Norman nobleman, had the lordship of Aston, later Aston Flamville.

Late 1200's John Flavel was Constable of Devizes Castle.

Year 1342 Alexander de Flavel, rector of St. Peter's Church, Flyford Flavell, Worcestershire.

1493 Thomas Flavell, merchant, granted Freedom of the City of York.

1550's Flavell families in Yardley.

Frequency of the name

Richard Flavel, nonconformist minister and wife,died in 1665 of plague after being released from Newgate Prison. Their son John Flavell, born Bromsgrove 1630, as a nonconformist preacher at Dartmouth he objected to the Act of Uniformity and was 'outlawed' from the Church.

Richard Flavell sentenced to death, then reprieved and transported to the American colonies for life in 1683, after in Warwick market place, being whipped until his body was bloody.

Will. Favell age 52 of Renhold, Bedfordshire, sentenced to death for stealing two horses ,then transported in 1829 .

Eliza Flavell formerly BISHOP was in 1881 sent to Warwick Jail for stealing chickens.

Distribution of the name

Those of the Flavell name and its variants were spread around Staffs. - Worcester - Warwick - Leicester - Northants - Cambs during the 17th / 18th C and with pockets in Craven,North Yorks., and N.Ireland.

John FLAVELL convicted of larceny, ordered to be whipped on the next 3 market days at Warwick year 1723. From copy of goal delivery held before Jefferey GILBERT.

Thomas Flavell and son arrived New Plymouth, North America, in year 1621, on the 'Fortune' following the 'Mayflower' by a couple of months.

Data

Many Parish Records post 1538.

Civil Records post 1837.

Some Census Records 1841 - 1901.

Some Manoral Records - Close Rolls - Quarter Sessions - Assize records some passenger lists, etc.

Links

dennis@fflavell.freeserve.co.uk

www.flavell.co.uk

Contact details

For further information, contact:

Mr Dennis Flavell
116 High Street,
Little Paxton,
Cambridgeshire
PE19 6QH
UNITED KINGDOM
E-mail:

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