TUCKER
(ENGLAND)
The Tucker name was originally an Anglo-Saxon name
that was given to a fuller, whose job it was to scour and thicken raw
cloth by beating it and trampling it in water having derived from the
Old English word tucian , which originally meant
to torment and later given the
meaning to tuck or to full. Occasionally, the name
Tucker was a nickname surname given to a courageous
person.
When the population in Britain increased to a level
where it was possible for people to meet others with the same first
name, the need for distinct personal identity became more acute. As a
result, during the Middle Ages hereditary surnames started to evolve.
Among the common style adopted were occupational names, such as
Tucker. An occupational name was taken from a word connected to the
profession of the original bearer.
Until the dictionary, and invention of only the last
few hundred years, the English language lacked any comprehensive
system of spelling rules. Consequently, spelling variations in names
are frequently found in early Anglo-Saxon and later Anglo-Norman
documents. One person's name was often spelled several different ways
over a lifetime. The recorded variations of Tucker include Togker,
Tockker, Touker, Toggker, Toger, Tocker, Togger, Toker, Tokker,
Tuckey, Tuker, Tooker, Tucker, and Tukey.
The search for the origins of teh Tucker family took
and even such rarified sources as teh Assize Rolls, the Inquisto, The
Ragman Rolls, The Domesday Book, baptismal records, parish records,
cartularies, and tax records. These and other ancient documents
revealed that first known reference to the Tucker family name was
found in Kent, where Jeffrey Tutquor was registered in 1217. The
family was also established in a county of Susssex, where Baldwin
Tuckere was enumerated as a resident in 1236. Members of the Tucker
family settled in Somerset around that time, and Wolward Le Tuckar
was recorded as resident of that area in 1243. A branch of teh family
migrated to Suffolk, where Thomas Le Touchere dwelled in 1293, and
another move to Cornwall, where Hugo Le Tukker resided in 1297. Other
branches of the Tucker family settled in Devonshire Welsh County
Penbroke. One notable member of the Tucker family was Admiral Thomas
Tucker, who killed a notorious Caribbean Pirate Black Beard in 1741.
The Middle Ages brought plagues and famine to
England, but the nation survived in tact. The modern era, however,
brought political and religious strife so potent it threaten to rip
apart the fabric of the nation. Catholics and Protestants fought
bitterly, and King and Parliament increasingly found themselves at
odds. The royal house of Stuart was deposed in the 17th century first
by Cromwell in 1649, in then later during the" Glorious Revolution"
of 188-89.
Thousands of English families boarded ships sailing
to the new world in the hope of escaping the unrest found in England
at this time. Although the search for opportunity in freedom from
persecution abroad took teh lives of many because of teh cramped
conditions and unsanitary nature of the vessels, the opportunity
perceived in the growing colonies of North America beckoned. Many of
the settlers who survived the journey went on to make important
contributions to teh transplanted cultures of their adopted
countries. the Tucker where among these contributors, for they have
been located in early North American records: John Tucker explored
the rivers of Maine in 1602, eighteen years before the "Mayflower";
Daniel Tucker landed in Virginia in 1607; William landed in 1610;
William Tucker who landed in Maine in 1621; George Tucker who landed
in Virginia 1635, along with Margaret, Alex, Elizabeth and Thomas;
John and Richard Tucker who settled in St. John's, Newfoundland in
1676, they were from Teignmouth in Devon.
St. George LL D. Tucker was one of the first
immigrants to teh United States in teh 17th century.
The 1984 edition of the report of distribution of
surnames in the Social Security lists the surname Tucker as the 129th
most popular surname in the United States.
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