Sir William Darell of Brodsworth, Yorkshire,
Who Entered With The Conqueror;
a Genealogical Chronicle

Book 1: The Families of England

by James S. Dorrill & Gordon A. Reed

The English surnames DAR(R)ELL, DAYRELL, DORRELL, and DORRILL, were acquired from once having lived in Airel (thus, "de Airel" or "d'Airel), a place in Normandy, France. Although there are other variants of the name, the spelling had little or no significance and it is probable that any bearer of it had an ancestor who came from that small village in Normandy, between St. Lo and Carentan.

This genealogical chronicle begins with Sir William Darell of Brodsworth, Yorkshire, who came to England from Normandy with William The Conqueror in the Invasion of 1066. Hubert Hall in his book "Society in the Elizabethan Age" (first edition, 1887) says:

"That deukalion of the heraldic Genesis, William the Conqueror, did not rank behind him many warriors whose descendants were destined to take deeper root in this country or to bequeath to future times a legendary history more romantic and a recorded history more instructive than that of the 'ancient family of Darrell'."

The descendants of this Norman Knight established themselves over various counties in England, and for centuries flourished in all: the principal were those of Calehill and Scotney, in Kent; of Sessay, in Yorkshire; of Littlecote and Langport, in Wiltshire; of Pagham, in Sussex; of Trewornan, in Cornwall; of Lillingston Dayrell and Fulmer, in Buckinghamshire; and Shudy Camps, in Cambridgeshire. In this history, some of these families are charted into the 20th century.

Follow-up volumes will chronicle the Darrell families of Bermuda, and the Dorrill families of Colonial Carolina, all direct descendants of the first Sir William Darell of Brodsworth, Yorkshire. Apart from some of the aristocratic families, it is rare to be able to trace ancestry of a family back to a supporter of the Conqueror, but in the case of Darell, there appears to be an unbroken pedigree from the time of the Invasion down to the present day.

Contents

• The First Darell Families of England
• The Darells of Sessay, Yorkshire
• The Darells of Littlecote, Wiltshire
• The Darells of Littlecote, Wiltshire (cont.)
• The Darells of Calehill, Little Chart, Kent, 1410-1650
• The Darells of Calehill, LIttle Chart, Kent (Part 2)
• The Darells of Calehill, Little Chart, Kent (Part 3)
• The Tucker and Sedley Connections
• The Darells of Scotney Castle, Lamberhurst, Kent
• The Darell Family of Fulmer, Buckinghamshire
• The Darell Family of Trewornan, St. Minver, Cornwall
• The Settlement and Development of Virginia to ca. 1650
• The Darells of Calehill, Little Chart, Kent, from 1650
• The Darell Baronetcy (created 12 May 1795)
• The Dayrell Family of Lillingstone Dayrell, Buckinghamshire
• The Darell Family of Langport, Stowe, Wiltshire
• The Dayrell Family of Shudy Camps, Cambridgeshire
• The Notebooks of Mrs. Boswell Tucker
• Unplaced Darells and Miscellaneous

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