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THURLOW Family History

This interesting surname with the spellings of Thurlow and Thurloe, and the dialectals Trillo and Trillow, is of English locational origins. It derives from the villages known as Great and Little Thurlow in the county of Suffolk. The placename is recorded as "Tridlauua" in the Domesday Book of 1086, from the Olde English pre 7th Century "thryth" meaning council or assembly, plus "hlaw" a hill; hence "assembly hill". The first element can also translate as deliberation for the Olde English word "thribe". The surname is first recorded in the latter half of the 13th Century (see below), and an early example is that of John de Thrillowe, in the Hundred Rolls of Cambridgeshire for the year 1278...