Duckworth Genealogy (Appendix A-2)
Union County, Georgia
Duckworth Family Section
My Family
written
and compiled by John Francis Duckworth
contributed by John Francis Duckworth and Jerrell Duckworth
Updated August 12, 2012
Appendix A
The Ancient History of the Distinguished Surname DUCKWORTH
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The Name and Family of Duckworth
The name of DUCKWORTH is derived from the residence of its first
bearers at Duckworth, an estate at Oswaldtwistle, in the Parish of
Whalley. Lancashire, England. The literal meaning of the name is
"Docca's Estate," Docca being an ancient AngloSaxon personal name of
uncertain origin. In ancient English and early American records the
name appears in the various spellings of Ducworth, Dukeworth,
Dokeworth, Dokworth, Duckeworth, Duckworth, and others.
Later branches of the family removed from Lancashire into the British
counties of York, Surrey, and London. These lines in some cases were of
lesser gentry of Great Britain.
The earliest definite records of the name in England are those of
Henricus or Henry of (de) Dukeworth, who was living in Yorkshire
about the year 1379, and of Johannes or John Dukeworth, who was living
in Yorkshire at about the same time, or soon thereafter.
Although there is considerable evidence to the effect that the
Duckworths were established in the New World at an early period, the
records of the emigration and of immigrant ancestors are not, for the
most part, available. The first of the name of whom there is definite
record in this country was Charles Duckworth, who served as a soldier
in King Phillip's War in 1676, but there is no record of the immediate
family or descendants of this immigrant to New England.
As early as the year 1684 one John Duckworth, probably the first of his
line in America, was living in East Jersey. Later records of the family
in New Jersey included those of William Duckworth, who witnessed the
will of Thomas Fox, of New Hanover, Burlington County, N.J., in 1727.
(The above copied from "The Name and Family of Duckworth" compiled by
The Media Research Bureau, Washington, D.C. about 1940's)
A letter to the compiler of these notes dated 20 April 1951, from Ralph
Duckworth, Naval Attache, British Embassy, Rio de Janeiro states in
part: "My family came from Lancashire England. We have had the same
land there since we got it from King Henry VIII in 1538 and my brother
and I are the direct line of the family which has gone from father to
son ever since the sixteenth century. The original name way back then
was Dykewarden as they used to tend the dykes near the sea between
Manchester and Liverpool. As far as I know all Duckworths came from
this family, so I guess we must be cousins of some sort. Yours very
sincerely,"
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