In 1890, Henry Brougham Guppy. M.B. (Edin.), published his ‘Homes of Family Names in Great Britain’. This is part of his entry for the county of Dorset
The family of BOWDITCH anciently held in part a manor and farm in Chardstock, which bore their name. John Bowditch, of Chardstock, gent., had property there in the time of Elizabeth (Hutchins’ “Dorsetshire”)
The BRINES of the neighbourhood of Shaftesbury had a representative of their name in Marnhull 300 years ago
The BUDDENS owned property in Holwell, Cranbourne parish, in the reign of Elizabeth; and in the middle of last century there was a family of the name in the neighbouring village of Ashmore (H ). At present the home of the name is in and around Wimborne, so that it would seem that it has only shifted some seven or eight miles in three centuries
The family of BUGG, of the vicinity of Sherborne, have probably an ancestor in John Bugge, who owned land in West Tyneham some time in the 16th century (Hutchins’ “Dorsetshire”). Both Bugg and Bugge were not uncommon names in Oxfordshire in the reign of Edward I. (Hundred Rolls); and Lower suggests, with the great probability of his surmise being correct, that this name is a form of the Saxon names Bucge and Bogue. This explanation is also advanced by Ferguson in his “Surnames as a Science.” He refers to Anglo-Saxon landholders named Buga and Bugga, and tells us that these names, together with Bucge, are also ancient German names. In fact, at the present day we find Bugge as a surname both in Germany and Scandinavia. To return, however, to the English representatives of the name, we learn from Deering’s “Nottingham,” that in the reign of Mary I., the Buggcs, as Merchants of the Staple, were persons of considerable note in the town of Nottingham. The Rev. H. Bugg was incumbent of Bleasby, Notts, in 1751
The BURTS owned the estate of Worths in Catstock from the time of Charles II. to the end of last century, when they sold it. There was a gentle family of Burt in Poorstock last century (Hutchins’ “Dorsetshire”)
In the troublous year of 1645, there were sequestrated in this county an estate in Whitchurch Canonicorum belonging to Mr. William CHILCOT, and the impropriation called St. Luke’s, in the parish of Burton Bradstock, belonging to Lientenant-Colonel Chilcott; this last fell into the hands of a Mr. Chilcott in 1650, who afterwards sold it (Hutchins’ “Dorsetshire”). Chilcott is the name of a tithing in Somerset, and there are places named Chilcote in Derbyshire and Staffordshire
The distinguished Dorset family of CHURCHILL, whence sprang the Duke of Marlborongh, resided at Mintern in the 16th and 17th centuries.
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