HURT:
English (chiefly Nottinghamshire): variant of Hart. German: topographic name from Middle High German hurt ‘hurdle’, ‘woven fence’. Dutch: nickname, presumably for a pugnacious or aggressive person, from Middle Dutch hort, hurt ‘strike’, ‘blow’, ‘attack’. Source: Dictionary of American Family Names Oxford University Press
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(1) Sitwell, Sir George Rersby, THE HURTS OF HALDWORTH AND THEIR DESCENDANTS, Oxford University Press, 1930, p. 2 of Appendix I and p. 466 of Appendix VI
(2) Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, Vol. 3 pg. 6, FHL# 1696504-3
(3) Glover, Stephen, THE HISTORY AND GAZETTEER OF THE CO. OF DERBY, Vol. 2 pt.1, 1833, FHL# 090697.
(4) Will of Ralph Hurt dated 1530 wp 6 May 1539; will appears in Espicopal Consistory Court of Litchfield index, but no longer is found in original wills as microfilmed.
(5) information found on internet on 4 Aug 1998.
www.familytreemaker.com/users/s/m/i/Karen-A-Smith/ODT1-0001.html Karen Adele Smith, 212 Woodlawn Road, Wilmington, Delaware 19803; e-mail:
cfhs@voicenet.com(6) Jul 2003: IGI
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Early Hurts in Ashbourne Derbyshire England
Many thanks to
Varla Jane Owens Wright for this submission.
Early Hurt Families in the Ashbourne Area of Derbyshire, England
The earliest known Hurt ancestor is given as Raphe/Ralfe Hurte of Ashbourne who, according to the Windsor Herald, married Emmet, daughter of Richard Carter, around 1454. This couple had two known sons; Thomas b. abt. 1459 of Ashbourne-in-ye-Peake, Derbyshire, and Roger, who left a will dated 11 Sept. 1522 and probated 22 Oct 1523. Roger apparently had no wife or children and left everthing to his godchildren and friends. [FHL# 95288 - document $ 43].
Thomas had four sons, as reported in records currently available:
1. William, b. about 1460 of Ashbourne, Derbyshire and Matfield, Staffordshire, d. 1520
2. Lawrence, b. about 1472, of Stanton, Staffordshire, d. 1550
3. Ralfe, b. about 1485, lived at Ashbourne, d. 1539
4. Nicholas, b. about 1487, possibly lived at Brailsforth, Derbyshire, d. 1559
The third son of Thomas, Ralfe Hurt of Ashbourne (1485-1539), married Alice Harris, as reported in the pedigree of his descendant William Hurt of Dover and Kent in the 1619 Visitation of Kent and also in the "Pedigree of the Hurts of Bristol" compiled by the Windsor Herald in 1819 from the records of the College of Arms in London. He wrote a will in 1530 which was probated 6 May 1539 in the Episcopal Consistory Court of Litchfield and appears listed in the index to those wills. However, it is no longer found among those wills as currently microfilmed.
Ralph is shown on a pedigree chart published in 1881 in the Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeology and Natural History Society, Vol. 3, pg. 6. [FHL# 1696504 item 3 as being the ancestor of the Hurts of Bristol. (His father, Thomas, and brothers William and Nicholas are also listed on this chart, which is primarily concerned with the progeny of Nicholas).
Records show that William, Ralph and Nicholas have a large number of descendants.
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