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HODDY (Hertfordshire & Middlesex)
Also Crawley, Hutchins, Dyton (Herts.); Smith, Pointer, Sharp, Pearce, Whitelock (Mdx.); Poynter, Haynes (Bucks.); Wood, (Kent). Sometime between 1855-1858 the Hoddy family moved to Middlesex from Hertford, many of them becoming postmen. After marriage, some of them moved to Kent and Gloucestershire whilst some stayed in Middlesex.
JOURDAIN (France, Norfolk, Middlesex & Australasia)
French Huguenots who left France in 1685 during the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, landing in Rye and making their way to London, where they settled in Spitalfields. Trades: weavers, clock and watch makers, silk dyers, surgeons. Associated names: Pierre (France); Perigal, Mauger, Pain, Martineau (France & England); L'Estourgeon, Allix, Van Sommer, Aubertin, De Caux, Savoye, Tireau, Leroy, Mollet, Ravenel, Derme, Leschalles, Cross, Wigley (England); Hoyle, Finch, Columbine, Willement, Martineau (Norwich, Norfolk, England); Jourdain, Gillies, (New Zealand).
SMITH (Suffolk & Middlesex)
Connected to the Hoddy family by marriage, in the 1840's the Smith family were living in Sproughton, Suffolk but by 1848 James Robert Smith was married to Mary Ann Pointer and living in Hendon, Mdx. James was a shoemaker in Suffolk apprenticed to a Richard Smith, shoemaker & parish clerk of Whitton, Suffolk, from 1828. Associated surnames: Fairs/Fayers/Faiers (Suffolk); Pointer, Wright, Crouchman, Butler, Tubby, Enever (Mdx.); Aedy (married in Shanklin, Isle of Wight). George Smith m. Elizabeth Fairs at Bramford, Suffolk 11 May 1801, ag. lab. living at Crane Hall Cottage, Sproughton in 1841.
PRITLOVE (Romford/Barking/Dagenham, Essex
Also Toothe (Romford); Harrold, Jose; Seabrook (Dagenham); Threadgold (Canewdon, Essex). Occupations: wheelwrights. Pritlove sometimes spelt Pricklove, Pricklowe, Pritler etc.
SUMMERS (Wotten-under-Edge, Gloucestershire; Chelsea & Fulham, London; Chadwell Heath, Essex)
Also Chandler (Chelsea, London); Pritlove (Romford/Barking/Dagenham, Essex); Watson (Cambs. & Lincs.); Brown (Cambs. & Hunts); Whenn (Norwich, Norfolk & Dagenham, Essex). The Summers family could have come originally from Wootton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, settling in Chelsea around 1856, Fulham 1888, and Chadwell Heath, Essex sometime before 1914. Occupations: Omnibus driver and tile fixers.
TUBBY (Norfolk, Middlesex, U.S.A. & Australasia)
Originating from Norfolk, Morley St. Peter/St Botolph, Thomas Cann Tubby and his wife Ann Moore moved down to Islington, Middlesex sometime around 1829. Associated surnames: Pagan, Miller, Moore, Pratt, Gaze, Bream/Brame, Cann (Norfolk); Glen, Oliver, Miles, Jourdain, Rigg, Nurse, Edwards, Kendrick, Bray, Frost, Myall (Mdx.).
During the 19th century some members of the Tubby family decided to emigrate; to Australia, (associated surnames: Fowler, Case) See George FOWLER and Sarah TUBBY, to New Zealand and America.
WATSON (Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Suffolk & Essex)
Associated surnames: Stiles (Newport, Essex); Brown (Godmanchester, Huntingdonshire); Summers (Chelsea & Fulham, London; Chadwell Heath, Esex, Wootton-under-Edge, Glos.). Occupations: railway employees, and in 1898 Charles Brown was landlord of the Woolpack Inn at Godmanchester, Huntingdon.
WORTH Middlesex)
Occupations: journeyman jeweller, optician, glassblower. The Worth's were associated with Barnard, Blundell, Godfrey, Appleyard, living in Clerkenwell and Islington, Middlesex.
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