EARLY DOGGETT FAMILY
From the Daggett Digest: (Article by Katherine Shurlds; reference "Colonial Families," The American Historical Society, Inc., 1931) Daggett ... is believed to have begun as Thurgod of the Domesday Book, or earlier as Toget, now Toogood. It may have also come from Doget, which became Doggett, Duggett, Dugood, Duguid, Dochet, Do good. Records of families of these names show they lived in the English counties of Yorkshire, Cambridge, Oxford, Kent, Somerset, Norfolk, and Suffolk.
From doggettfam.org -- There were Doggetts living in Babergh Hundred from at least the mid-fourteenth century, but very few written records have survived. One document is a lay subsidy (assessment for taxation) levied in 1327, which lists as one of 21 residents of Bures a William Dogut. A Nicholas Dogat was taxed at the nearby parish of Hesset.
Sources: Norfolk: Norwich -1. Index to Wills, Consistory Court of Norwich, 1370-1550 2. Wills among the Norwich Enrolled Deeds, 1286-1508.
Wills proved in the Consistory Court of Norwich and now preserved in the District Probate Registry at Norwich 1370 to 1550, Norfolk, England:
1451 Doggett, Dogett, Richard, Mendham, All Sts. 109 Aleyn.
1473 Doggett, Doget, Dogett, Robert, Beccles 23, 24 Hubert.
The following Doggetts were documented, and may or may not have been siblings or peers:
MY EARLIEST KNOWN ANCESTOR
Richard Doggett* Born before 1520. Click on name for details.
THE FOLLOWING ARE TAKEN FROM "THE DOGGET FAMILY, GLEANINGS IN ENGLAND" (Professor Doggett of Harvard, published in 1880.):
John Doget: Record from 1219; also shown as Doket, Duket, Ducket.
Robert Doggett: Granted lands in 1228 by King Henry who took them from Westacre Abbey in Appleton.
William Doggett: Mayor of Bristol in 1492.
Thomas Doggett: Rector of Burnham Parish, buried in 1496 at Norwich Cathedral.
FROM OTHER SOURCES (click on the names for details):
Magdelena Mudwin Doggett (born about 1455).
John Doggett (listed in the Visitations of Norfolk, 1563, 1589, 1613).
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