![]() ![]() Dickinson, F.H., Kirby's Quest for Somerset of 16th of Edward the 3rd London: Harrison and Sons, Printers in Ordinary to Her Majesty, St, Martin's Lane, 1889.Bardsley, C.W, A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames: With Special American Instances.Wilson, A Dictionary of English Surnames. Augustine's, Canterbury, and wrote a history of that foundation at that time. 1270), was an English historian and monk of St. " īack in England, Thomas Sprott or Spott ( fl. The first recorded of the name in Scotland appears to be Hugh Sprot of Ur who witnessed a charter by Eustace Baliol granting the church and lands of Hur (Urr) in 1262 to the monks of Holyrood. The tradition of those bearing this name in Scotland is that their ancestors were Saxons who came into Scotland after the Norman Conquest of England. Kirby's Quest listed "John Sprot, Somerset, 1 Edward III" (during the first year's reign of King Edward III.) įurther to the north in Scotland, the name was "perhaps from Sprot, an Old English personal name, but more likely to be of Scandinavian origin. īy the Hundredorum Rolls of 1273, the name was scattered through ancient Britain: Henry Sprot, Cambridgeshire Richard Sprot, Oxfordshire and Simon Sprot, Bedfordshire. The same rolls also listed Willelmus filius Sprot at that time. 'the son of Sprot,'" įrom this earliest record, some of the family were found in Yorkshire as evidenced by Sprot de Spaldintona who was listed there in the Pipe Rolls of 1176. The surname Sprout was first found in Derbyshire where the Domesday Book of 1086 lists the name was "derived from the name of an ancestor. ![]()
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