"The ancient family of Dorrill, Darrell, etc., who are in the Roll of Battle Abbey, entered with the Conqueror into England."

- Browne Willis, LL.D, The History and Antiquities of the Town of
Buckingham (1755)

"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 insrtuctive than that of the ancient family of Darrell"
- Hubert Hall, Society in the Elizabethan Age (1887)

"Apart from some of the aristocratic families, it is rare to be able to trace ancestry of a family back to the supporters 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."
- Dorrill and Reed, Sir William Darell of Brodsworth, Yorkshire (1992)

"I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal atomic globule. Consequently, my family pride is something inconceivable.  I can't help it.  I was born sneering."
- W. S. Gilbert, The Mikado (1885)
 

The Dorrill Society is an association of persons with a shared interest dedicated to the family history and genealogy of Robert Dorrill (b.1712/1717) of Christ Church Parish in Colonial Carolina, his ancestors and descendants, and including the related allied and collateral lines of those families.

(See Robert's ancestral lineage here)

Robert was the progenitor of most, if not all, of the Dorrills now in America.  He married twice, these are the two family groups:

        Robert Dorrill, born 1712 or April 1717 in either Warwick, Bermuda, or Christ Church Parish in Carolina; married (1st)Elizabeth Cook(e) in 1736 in CCP; he was a vestryman of the parish church 1n 1745 and 1749; Representative of Parish to the South Carolina Commons House of Assembly in 1746; nine children, of which three sons served in the Carolina Militia 1780-82.

1.  Robert, b. 1737, m. Sarah Jones.

           a.  (twin) Samuel, m. Rachel Combé.
           b.  (twin) Mary, m. John Hartman IV.

2.  James, b. 1740, d. inf.

3.  John, bpt. 1742, m. (1st) Elizabeth Murrell.

           a.  James

     John m. (2nd) Damaris (? Murrell).

           a.  Robert
           b.  ? William
           c.  James, m. Ann Dorrill (first cousin).
           d.  ? John

4.  Martha, b. ca. 1743, d. inf.

5.  Jonathan, b. 1745, m. (1st) Mary Whitesides.

            a.  Mary
            b.  Jonathan
            c.  Elizabeth

     Jonathan m. (2nd) Mary Sarah Combé.

            a.  Joseph, m. Rachel Combé. 

6.  Elizabeth, b. 1748, m. Thomas Player.

            a.  Mary, m. Isaac LeGare.
            b.  Martha, m. Edward Mortimer.
            c.  Joshua, m. (1st)Elizabeth Thomson,
                  (2nd)Mary Adger.

7.  Martha, b. 1751.

8.  William, b. 1754, m. (1st) Elizabeth Whitesides.

     William m. (2nd) Rebecca McCoy.

            a.  Rebecca, m. (1st)Charles Whitesides,
                (2nd)Decker, (3rd)McIntosh.
            b.  Samuel
            c.  Ann, m. James Dorrill (first cousin).
            d.  Sarah, m. Thomas Airs.
            e.  Mary

9.  Joseph, b. 1761, m. Elizabeth Whilden.

            a.  Mary
 

       (Allied family lines of first marriage)
         Cook(e)        Murrell            Combé       McCoy
          Jones        Whitesides         Player      Whilden
 

        Robert Dorrill married (2nd)Martha Hamlin (relict of John McDowell) in 1767; she was the daughter of Thomas Hamlin; three children.

1.  Robert, b. 1768, m. Martha Whitesides.

            a.  Martha, m. B. F. Moore.
            b.  Edwin, m. Elizabeth Copeland Gibson.
            c.  John
            d.  Mellicent, m. Henry W. Muckinfuss.
            e.  Augustus, m. Caroline Saunders Hewitt.
             f.  Robert
            g.  Theodore
            h.  Angelina, m. Thomas Hall Jervey.

2.  Benjamin, b. ca. 1769-70.

3.  Sarah, b. 1771, m. Elias Whilden.

            a.  Eliza
            b.  Elias
            c.  Decimer

(Allied family lines of second marriage)
Hamlin     Whitesides     Whilden
 

(See more on the descendants of
Robert Dorrill and Martha Hamlin here.)