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Origin of the Name Shuttleworth



The origin of the name Shuttleworth was found in the allfamilycrests.com archives.
Over the centuries Surnames developed a wide number of variants. Different spellings of the same name can be traced back to an original root. Additionally when a bearer of a name emigrated it was not uncommon that their original name would be incorrectly transcribed in the record books at their new location. Surnames were also often altered over the years based on how they sounded phonetically and depending on the prevailing political conditions it may have been advantageous to change a name from one language to another.
Variants of the name Shuttleworth
include Shettleworth, Shuttlewurt, Shottelwort, Shuttleworthe and many others. This name is usually of English locational origin and is taken from several places in Lancashire, Derbyshire and Yorkshire. The name is derived from the old words 'scyttle', meaning a bar or bolt, and 'worth', meaning an enclosure or store. Thus the name describes a barred room or enclosure, a protected place. Locality names are derived from placenames and describe someone who lived near a physical feature such as a tree, hill, river or church, or from habitations such as a town, village, farmstead or County. A renowned family of the name were the Shuttleworths of Shuttleworth Hall, in the Parish of Whalley in Lancashire, who were recorded as early as the year 1329. Henry de Schutlesworth was recorded in the 'Assize Court Rolls of Lancashire' in the year 1246. A Thomas Schytylworth was recorded in the Corpus Christi Guild Records of Yorkshire in the year 1477.
Names were recorded in these ancient documents to make it easier for their overlords to collect taxes and to keep records of the population at any given time. When the overlords acquired land by either force or gifts from their rulers, they created charters of ownership for themselves and their vassals. It was by creating, maintaining and updating these reference books that they were able to maintain their authority and enforce laws.
In Ireland this name and its variants were introduced into Ulster Province by settlers who arrived from England and Scotland, especially during the seventeenth century. It was the 'Plantations of Ireland' in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that marked the end of Gaelic supremacy in Ireland. While the influx of settlers in the wake of the earlier Anglo-Norman invasion of the twelfth century resulted in a full integration into Irish society of the new arrivals, the same never occurred with the Ulster Planters who maintained their own distinct identity.
The Shuttleworth coat of arms came into existence centuries ago. The process of creating coats of arms (also often called family crests) began in the eleventh century although a form of Proto-Heraldry may have existed in some countries prior to this. The new art of Heraldry made it possible for families and even individual family members to have their very own coat of arms, including all Shuttleworth descendants.
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