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Thorpe Trussels

Other OS name in the Parish of Twyford and Thorpe

Historical Forms

  • Thorpe Trussell 1863 White
  • Thorpe Trussel 1925 Kelly
  • John Trussel 1395,1415 Nichols

Etymology

, 1806 Map , 1835 O , Thorpe Trussell 1863White, Thorpe Trussel 1925 Kelly , a fox covert of the Quorn Hunt ; prob . with the common Leics . surn . Trussell , cf. Robertus Trusel 1195 P of Leics . And John Trussel 1395, 1415 Nichols , who held land in Drayton ( Gartree Hundred ) , 14 miles to the south - east ; less likely with the obsolete trussell ' a bundle ' , the source of the surn . , perh . applied fancifully to a clump of trees .