Dufton Family History and Genealogy

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The family name Dufton originates from the village of Dufton in the old English county of Westmorland.


About the year 670 a group of Angle farmers travelled across the fells and moors from the English kingdom of Northumbria, and settled in small clusters of farms along the fellside of the Eden valley. One of their settlements was called Dufton, from the old English words DUF meaning dove, and TON meaning farmstead.

Hence..... Dufton the place of doves.

The first record of a person having the name Dufton was Robert de Dufton who lived in the village of Dufton in 1176. Robert was in trouble with King Henry for not defending nearby Appleby castle when it was captured by the Scot's army in 1174. Robert's name appears on the Westmorland pipe rolls, and he is fined 40 shillings by the king.

Robert's son John de Dufton was rewarded by King John for supporting him in troubled times, he was granted the manor and barony of Dufton. But John de Dufton's son, Robert de Dufton was outlawed by King Edward. However, Robert's son Humphrey de Dufton fared even worse, he was hanged by the king.


DUFTON QUIZ......

1. Who was the last person Napoleon visited before he died?

2. Where can you find the oldest rocks on earth?

3. Who invented the plastic ball point pen that is used by millions of people each day?

4. Who was world champion billiard player in 1856?

5. Who was Admiral of the Fleet in 1921?

6. The novel, King Solomon's mine was written by Rider Haggard, but what was his mother's maiden name?

7. In 1961 who was the champion amatuer steeplechase jockey of the USA?

8. Where was Saint John Bose, one of the Forty English martyrs, born and bred?

9. Who was the child actress that starred in the classic Laurel and Hardy film 'Pack up your Troubles' ?

10. Who commanded the Fourth Battle squadron at the Battle of Jutland?

11. What warship has the number M1145?

12. Who was the billiard tutor to King Edward VII?


And finally.......

What is the connection between the Dufton family farm at Morton Sceugh in Cumbria and Buckingham Palace in London?

What is the connection between the Dufton family and the Battle of Trafalgar?

What is the connection between Tarzan and the Dufton family?


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