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About  The Wood Family, Markcrow, Turton and other
This site will endeavor to show not only the Wood family but all people either associated with Wood or ever been related to a Wood, by marriage or birth. Relations can go back many generations and will not necessarily involve the name of Wood.  Please let me know any corrections or omissions.

The wood Surname
 wood Name Meaning and History

1. mainly a topographic name for someone who lived in or by a wood or a metonymic occupational name for a woodcutter or forester, from Middle English wode ‘wood’ (Old English wudu).    2. nickname for a mad, eccentric, or violent person, from Middle English wod ‘mad’, ‘frenzied’ (Old English wad), as in Adam le Wode, Worcestershire 1221.

The Turton name

This is an English habitation name from a village in Lancashire, first recorded in 1212 in the Book of Fees from Lancashire as Turton and later appearing in the Charter Rolls in 1257 as 'Thurton'. The latter spelling shows the derivation of the name as being from the Olde Norse pre 7th Century 'tun', meaning enclosure or settlement, so the use of such a surname would indicate someone who lived there (in Thori's 'town') or who used to live there and moved to a different village or town. William Turton (1762 - 1835) was a much respected conchologist and scholar of natural history. His chief work 'A Conchological Dictionary of the British Islands' was published in 1819. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Sir Henry Turton, which was dated 1523, in the Wills at Chester, during the reign of King Henry V111, known as Bluff King Hal, 1509 - 1547. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often eading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.

Last name: Chandler
 This interesting surname is of early medieval English origin, and is an occupational name for a maker or seller of candles. The derivation is from the Middle English "cha(u)ndeler", ultimately from the Old French "chandelier", Late Latin "candelarius", a derivative of "candela" a candle, from "candere" to be bright, with the agent suffix "-er", one who does or works with (something). The name may also, more rarely, have denoted someone who was responsible for the lighting arrangements in a large house, or else one who owed rent in the form of wax or candles. Job-descriptive surnames originally denoted the actual occupation of the namebearer, and later became hereditary. The surname is first recorded in the latter half of the 13th Century (see below), and can also be found as Chantler and Candler. On February 13th 1562, the marriage of William Chandler and Agnes Gibbs took place at the Church of Harrow on the Hill, London. One of the earliest settlers in the new World was Arthur Chandler, who was recorded as living in Virginia on February 16th 1623. A Coat of Arms granted to the family is a silver shield with two black bendlets between five pellets in saltire, the Crest being a black bull's head attired silver. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Matthew le Candeler, which was dated 1274, in the "Hundred Rolls of London", during the reign of King Edward 1, known as "The Hammer of the Scots", 1272-1307. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.

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