Tritton is an
English
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surname of
Anglo-Norman origin.
Etymology
The name originates from an
Anglo-Scandinavian
Anglo-Scandinavian is an academic term referring to the hybridisation between Norse and Anglo-Saxon cultures in Britain during the early medieval period. It remains a term and concept often used by historians and archaeologists, and in linguistic ...
combination of the personal name ''Trit'' and of the second element ''ton''. The family name translates as "The farm of Trit". The first element ''Trit'' originates either from the
Old East Norse dialect ''þryzker'' itself from
Old Norse
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''þrjózkr'' ("defiant"); compare with modern
Swedish noun ''trots'' ("defiance"); meaning "The defiant one" or from the
Old Norse
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''þróttr'' ("force", "power"); compare with modern
Icelandic noun ''þróttur'' ("vigor", "force"); meaning the "The strong one". The second element ''ton'' originates from either
Old English ''tūn'' or
Old Norse
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''tún'', both sharing the same meaning ("enclosure", "settlement", "farm").
Region of origin
The name occurs in
''Stapylton's Rolls of the Norman Exchequer'' and in the as holding lands in the neighborhood of
Falaise and
Bayeux in
Normandy (France) as well as in the counties of
Kent
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and
Essex
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in
England
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during the period covering the end of the 11th Century to the beginning of the 13th Century. The surname also appears in the
Lancashire Pipe rolls in the year 1203 with a certain ''Walter de Tritton'', the latter being mentioned as owing half a
mark
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''"to be acquitted from an appeal, probably of murder"''.
According to these same literary sources, the name disappears from the coasts of Normandy after the year 1204 coinciding therefore with the
French invasion of Normandy (1202–1204)
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.
The
Scandinavian and later
Norman
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* The Normans, a people partly descended from Norse Vikings who settled in the territory of Normandy in France in the 10th and 11th centuries
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origins of the name are also reinforced by several hypotheses among which we can cite the etymology of the
Norwegian parish of
Tretten
Tretten is a village in Øyer Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The village is located on the Losna lake, which is part of the Gudbrandsdalslågen river. Tretten is located in the Gudbrandsdal valley, along the Gudbrandsdalslågen river ...
, the existence of the
German
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village of
Trittenheim
Trittenheim on the Middle Moselle is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Trier-Saarburg district (before January 2012: Bernkastel-Wittlich district) in Rhineland-P ...
taking its roots from a
Norsemen
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settlement on the edge of the river
Moselle
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during the
Viking raids in the Rhineland or also the
italian
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surname ''Trittoni'' of
Italo-Norman
The Italo-Normans ( it, Italo-Normanni), or Siculo-Normans (''Siculo-Normanni'') when referring to Sicily and Southern Italy, are the Italian-born descendants of the first Norman conquerors to travel to southern Italy in the first half of th ...
origin taking its roots from the
Norman conquest of southern Italy
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In 1130, the territories in southern Italy united as the Kingdom of Sicily, which included the island of Sicily, the southern t ...
.
People
Notable people with the name include:
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Arthur Stanley Tritton (1881–1973), British historian and scholar of Islam
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David Tritton (1935–1998), British fluid dynamicist
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Duke Tritton (1886–1965), Australian poet and folk singer
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Sir Ernest Tritton, 1st Baronet (1845–1918), English banker and politician
** first of the
Tritton baronets
The Tritton Baronetcy, of Bloomfield in the Metropolitan Borough of Lambeth in the County of London, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 1 August 1905 for Ernest Tritton, Conservative member of parliament fo ...
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Sir Geoffrey Ernest Tritton, 3rd Baronet
Major Sir Geoffrey Ernest Tritton CBE DL (3 November 1900 – 15 November 1976), was a British businessman, soldier and Liberal Party politician, who later joined the Conservative party.
Background
Tritton was born the son of Sir Alfred Trit ...
(1900–1976), British businessman, soldier and politician
** third of the
Tritton baronets
The Tritton Baronetcy, of Bloomfield in the Metropolitan Borough of Lambeth in the County of London, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 1 August 1905 for Ernest Tritton, Conservative member of parliament fo ...
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Joseph Henry Tritton
Joseph is a common male given name, derived from the Hebrew Yosef (יוֹסֵף). "Joseph" is used, along with "Josef", mostly in English, French and partially German languages. This spelling is also found as a variant in the languages of the m ...
(1894–1958), Australian lieutenant
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Joseph Herbert Tritton
Joseph Herbert Tritton (a.k.a. J. Herbert Tritton) (1844–1923) was an English banker.
Early life
Joseph Herbert Tritton was born on 5 September 1844 at Olney Lodge, in Battersea, then in Surrey (now London).Jessie CampbellTritton, Joseph Herb ...
(a.k.a. J. Herbert Tritton) (1844–1923), English banker
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Lydia Ellen Tritton (1899-1946), Australian journalist, poet and public elocutionist
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Nicholas Tritton
Nicholas "Nick" Tritton (born 20 July 1984 in Guelph, Ontario) is a male judoka who grew up in the Perth/Lanark area of Ontario Canada. Nicholas was a member of Canada's National Team for more than ten years and won many medals domestically and ...
(born 1984), Canadian judoka
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Thomas R. Tritton, American academic administrator
*Sir
William Tritton
Sir William Ashbee Tritton, JP, (19 June 1875 – 24 September 1946) was a British expert in agricultural machinery, and was directly involved, together with Major Walter Gordon Wilson, in the development of the tank. Early in World War I he ...
(1875–1946), English expert on agricultural machinery
See also
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Anglo-Norman families Anglo-Norman may refer to:
* Anglo-Normans, the medieval ruling class in England following the Norman conquest of 1066
*Anglo-Norman language
** Anglo-Norman literature
*Anglo-Norman England
England became inhabited more than 800,000 years a ...
*
157P/Tritton periodic comet
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46442 Keithtritton 4644 may refer to:
* 4-6-4-4
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Other equivalent classi ...
asteroid
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Purcell Miller Tritton English architects, designers and historic building consultants
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