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Male personal names generally provided the base for patronymic and pet-name surnames. But there were exceptions. Mary was not a common medieval name (although of course there was the Virgin Mary). It is thought that the pet-name Marriot emerged from Mary as a surname.
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England. The Marriott name was mainly to be found in the Midlands counties of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire. It cropped up most frequently in the records of Mansfield and Sutton-in-Ashfield. There were also early references in Leicestershire and Northamptonshire. Marriotts in London in the 17th century included Ben Marriot, the lawyer with a prodigious appetite, and John and Erasmus Marriott, apprentice clockmakers. James Marriott came into the manor of Horsmonden in Kent in the 1720's through marriage.
A Marryat line in England had come from Huguenots who had taken refuge in England following the St.Bartholomew's Day massacres in 1572. The line included Thomas Marryat, a somewhat eccentric 18th century physician, and Joseph Marryat who became an MP and a British agent for the West Indies in the early 19th century. His son, Frederick, made his name as a writer of sea stories.
Marriott emigrants from England in the 19th century included:
John Marriott was one of the original pioneers of the Mormon church in Utah. His son Hyrum ended up scratching out a bare living as a sheep farmer near Ogden. So his son J. Williard Marriott, the second of six children, set off for Washington DC in 1927 to try and better himself. He opened a root beer stall there with his wife Alice. This business expanded into a restaurant chain and, later, into hotels. His son J.W. Marriott, like his father a Mormon, is the present CEO of this giant international hotel chain.
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Captain Frederick Marryat, a contemporary of Dickens, was a pioneer of the sea story. He is best known today for his children's story The Children of the New Forest.
Alice Marriott was a well-known actress on the London stage in the mid 19th century.
J. Willard Marriott was the founder of the Marriott international hotel chain.
Steve Marriott was the mod face of the English rock group Small Faces in the late 1960's.
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The Origin/Spread of Surnames
Male personal names generally provided the base for patronymic and pet-name surnames. But there were exceptions. Mary was not a common medieval name (although of course there was the Virgin Mary). It is thought that the pet-name Marriot emerged from Mary as a surname.
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- John Marriott Historical Society. Mormon Marriott family.
England. The Marriott name was mainly to be found in the Midlands counties of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire. It cropped up most frequently in the records of Mansfield and Sutton-in-Ashfield. There were also early references in Leicestershire and Northamptonshire. Marriotts in London in the 17th century included Ben Marriot, the lawyer with a prodigious appetite, and John and Erasmus Marriott, apprentice clockmakers. James Marriott came into the manor of Horsmonden in Kent in the 1720's through marriage.
A Marryat line in England had come from Huguenots who had taken refuge in England following the St.Bartholomew's Day massacres in 1572. The line included Thomas Marryat, a somewhat eccentric 18th century physician, and Joseph Marryat who became an MP and a British agent for the West Indies in the early 19th century. His son, Frederick, made his name as a writer of sea stories.
Marriott emigrants from England in the 19th century included:
- James Marriott, the London
theatrical impresario who set up his stall in Wellington, New Zealand
in the 1840's. He was the father of the actress Alice Marriott.
- William Marriott, the Manchester lawyer and politician who emigrated later to South Africa.
John Marriott was one of the original pioneers of the Mormon church in Utah. His son Hyrum ended up scratching out a bare living as a sheep farmer near Ogden. So his son J. Williard Marriott, the second of six children, set off for Washington DC in 1927 to try and better himself. He opened a root beer stall there with his wife Alice. This business expanded into a restaurant chain and, later, into hotels. His son J.W. Marriott, like his father a Mormon, is the present CEO of this giant international hotel chain.
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Captain Frederick Marryat, a contemporary of Dickens, was a pioneer of the sea story. He is best known today for his children's story The Children of the New Forest.
Alice Marriott was a well-known actress on the London stage in the mid 19th century.
J. Willard Marriott was the founder of the Marriott international hotel chain.
Steve Marriott was the mod face of the English rock group Small Faces in the late 1960's.
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- 17,000 in the UK (most numerous in Derbyshire)
- 2,000 in America (most numerous in Missouri)
- 5,000 elsewhere (most numerous in Australia)
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The Origin/Spread of Surnames