Twizells

[ainslie]

Liz
Message just received and many thanks for that.  I will reply by email.
A

[fred111]

Hi
Found your
                  George Twizell=Margaret Stuart      married 2 Sept 1775
on Durham Bishops transcripts.
Have sent you the site by email
Liz

[wrussell]

I am also a decendent of the Armstrong, Downie, Twizell and Russell families of Newbiggin.
Are you aware there is a lucky stone that belonged to a William Twizell at the Pitt Rivers museum in Oxford?
Here is the link:
http://england.prm.ox.ac.uk/englishness-Lucky-Newbiggin-stone.html
I have a photo I can email if anyone is interested.

William Russell

[Patricia jackson]

  Hello,what an interesting looking article. I have saved it to look at properly when I have more time. Thank you for posting it. I am descended from Brown's, Storey's,Twizells  in the Newbiggin, Bedlington, &  Cresswell areas, and have quite a few in my tree, especially Browns.

[ainslie]

Thanks for posting the link - very interesting, and stored for possible links.  Any more on a Twisel [etc] link to Daglish welcomed, as stated in an earlier thread.
A

[madmurph]

there is a family who live in morpeth with this surname
alison

[c-side]

There was also a street in Blyth bearing the name.  Not sure if it's still there, probably knocked down for something new.

Christine

[Patricia jackson]

I think possibly they originated from Blyth and spread over Northumberland, I have Newbiggin and Bedlington Twizells in my tree, I understand it is a northern name. By the way in the article - Lucky Newbiggin stone the Twizells mentioned were some of my ancestors, now I know why I am always  looking for stones with holes in them! they are strangely fascinating I have one but unfortunately it is not particulary lucky [shame really] 

[Reinkaos]

Surname: Twizell
This uncommon and intriguing name is of Anglo-Saxon origin, and is a topographical surname used in the first instances to denote someone who lived near the fork of a river, or on land in such a fork. The derivation is from the Olde English pre 7th Century "twisla", fork of a river, a term also found in such placenames as Twistleton (Yorkshire), Entwisle (Lancashire), and Haltwhistle (Northumberland). Topographical surnames were among the earliest created, since both natural and man-made features in the landscape provided easily recognisable distinguishing names in the small communities of the Middle Ages. In some few cases, the modern surname may be locational in origin, from Twizel Castle or Twizell in Northumberland, named with the same Olde English "twisla". One Richard de Twysel was recorded in the Staffordshire Assize Court Rolls of 1272. Recordings of the name from various Church Registers include: the christening of William, son of William Twizell, at Ansley, Warwickshire, on July 21st 1672; the christening of Thomas, son of Sam Twizell, on January 10th 1689, at St. John Deansgate, Manchester, Lancashire; and the marriage of Concey Twizel and John Gould at Alverstoke, Hampshire, on September 22nd 1778. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Richard Twisle, which was dated 1196, in the "Pipe Rolls of Durham", during the reign of King Richard 1, known as "Richard the Lionheart", 1189 - 1199. 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.

Hey guys, I found this quite interesting!

For what it's worth I'm a Twizell from the North-East, but with little knowledge of my lineage.