Topics

• About the Twitchett One-Name Study
• Variants
• Origin of the surname
• Historical occurrences
• Distribution of the name
• Data
• DNA project
• Links

About the Twitchett One-Name Study

The Society studies thethe name Twitchett and various variant spellings thereof. Findings are then published in our periodic Newsletter. All Twitchetts wherever their immediate and recent generations

are located, willtrace back to the Essex-Suffolk border country.To date we have traced the East London lines back to Braintree in the 1690's ;the South London lines , many now in Surrey and Sussex

back to Clare in Suffolk; the Yorks lines back to THetford and the Durham lines back to Ashen in N Essex. The South London lines also have many Antipodean relatives following the transportation of Joseph Twitchett to Tasmania in 1828 for sheep stealing'

Variants

Variant spellings are Twychet and others which are fairly obvious due to the omission of one or more 'T's. Another variation is Twitchit; the Tabitha of that line being the well known mother of Tom Kitten. Twitchell is not thought to be a derivative.

Origin of the surname

There are some who still think it to be Saxon but the majority view is that we arrived along with the Conqueror's troops folowing William giving Harold one in the eye. The

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Data

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DNA project

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