Thanks to some of my more assiduous relations, we have an unbroken lineage back to 1667 — 11 generations. And with the recent publication of the Domesday Book online:
Provides information about the 1086 survey in which extensive records of landholders,
tenants, the… [but unable to deliver any pages at the moment due to high demand: you’d think they coulda predicted that]
we may be able to tease out some more. Many years ago, I was told that the family name appeared in the Willie the Conk’s inventory of 1086. Interesting to see if that’s true.