Tooke

Tooke is an Old English name originally found predominantly in the East Anglia region of the United Kingdom.Tooke is said to be derived "from the Old Swedish (pre 7th century Old Scandinavian origin) personal name "Toki". Toki remained a personal name from the Old Scandinavian, through the Anglo-Norman, and Middle English periods.

Tooke is an Old English name originally found predominantly in the East Anglia region of the United Kingdom.Tooke is said to be derived "from the Old Swedish (pre 7th century Old Scandinavian origin) personal name "Toki". Toki remained a personal name from the Old Scandinavian, through the Anglo-Norman, and Middle English periods.

Etymology

Tooke is said to be derived from the Old Swedish (pre 7th century Old Scandinavian origin) personal name "Toki", itself claimed to be short form (in Latin a diminutive or in Greek a hypocoristicon) of "Thorkettill" translating as "Thors cauldron". However, some sources suggest the derivation is from "Tiodgeir", meaning "people-spear". Toki remained a personal name from the Old Scandinavian, through the Anglo-Norman, and Middle English periods. Two runestone inscriptions contain the personal name Toki: the Gunderup Runestone and the Sjörup Runestone. The personal name Thorkell is mentioned in two sagas: Hrafnkel's Saga and the Laxdale Saga. "Thorkettill" translating as "Thors cauldron" is a reference to the Norse myth that thunder was made by Thor riding around in a chariot full of kettles. According to Helene Adeline Guerber, "in Southern Germany the people, fancying a brazen chariot alone inadequate to furnish all the noise they heard, declared it was loaded with copper kettles, which rattled and clashed, and therefore often called him, with disrespectful familiarity, the kettle-vendor." Also in the Norse sagas, there is a story in which Thor is looking for a "kettle large enough to brew ale for all the Æsir at one time."

Tuck and Tooke, of East Anglia: Norfolk, and Suffolk

The Tookes from Norwich appear to associate themselves (using their arms) with the landed Toke family of Godinton Kent, which claims descent from Robert de Toke, who was present with Henry III at the Battle of Northampton (1264). Most Norfolk Tookes would be of local origin. Dr. Robert Liddiard in his thesis Landscapes of Lordship: Norman Castles and the Countryside in Medieval Norfolk, 1066-1200 suggests there were "a maximum of five and a minimum of three individuals called Toki who held land in Norfolk on the eve of the [Norman] conquest". One Toki (in particular) was a rather prominent ancestor of William de Warenne. "Toki was one of England's wealthiest lords, ranking fortieth in terms of wealth as recorded in Domesday Book TRE." Toki and his family lost their position after the fall of the Anglo-Saxons at the Battle of Hastings. Lords and Communities in Early Medieval East Anglia describes that he was a King's Thane A Thane was "a rank of nobility in pre-Norman England, roughly equivalent to baron." "The thanes in England were formerly persons of some dignity; there were two orders, the king's thanes, who attended the kings in their courts and held lands immediately of them, and the ordinary thanes, who were lords of manors and who had particular jurisdiction within their limits. After the [Norman] Conquest, this title was disused, and baron took its place."

Notable Tookes

Andrew Tooke (1673–1732), English scholar, headmaster, and translator of Tooke's Pantheon Charles Emery Tooke, Jr. (1912–1986), U.S. attorney and politician from Louisiana George Tooke (1595–1675), English soldier and writer John Horne Tooke (1736–1812), English clergyman, politician, and philologist John Tooke (born 1949¹), English professor of medicine and medical reform advocate Thomas Tooke (1774–1858), English economist and economic statistician, son of William Tooke (1744–1820), brother of William Tooke (1777–1863) William Tooke (1744–1820), British clergyman and historian of Russia, father of William Tooke (1777–1863) and Thomas Tooke William Tooke (1777–1863), British lawyer, son of William Tooke (1744–1820), brother of Thomas Tooke

See also

Took (surname) Tuke (disambiguation) Tuque

External links

Tooke in 1881 census

References

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