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| The Huxley coat of arms is a shield of Ermine with a red diagonal stripe on which are 3 gold or silver crescents. Above this shield should be the crest of a wolf's head. |
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The Family Moto: "In Deo Omnia", which is Latin for "In God are all things" |
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Places called Huxley: Huxley, Cheshire, England Huxley, Iowa, USA |
The Name 'Huxley'The name 'Huxley' is of Anglo-Saxon origin and locational from a place in Cheshire called 'Huxley', recorded variably as 'Huxeley' (1260), 'Huxley' (1271) and 'Huxelegh' (1385).The original Huxleys were Vikings from Scandanavia that moved to Normandy on the invitation of the King of France. Following 1066 and all that they moved to England and settled in the north west. Back then the name was Holdesieia and they were a medieval Cheshire family first recorded in the reign of Richard I (1189-1199). The surname Hodelseia came from that manor in the Waverton Parish of Cheshire, 8 miles south west of Chester in England. It was later corrupted to Huxley and its variations. The hamlet of Hodesleia became known as Huxley and the family spread in the late 18th century into neighbouring areas and across the boarder to Wales. The name is believed to derive from the genitive case of the Olde English pre 7th Century personal nickname 'Hucc' (from 'Hux' meaning a taunt), plus 'leah' meaning a wood or clearing. Other versions of the origin of Huxley seem to only differ in the meaning of 'Hux'. I have heard it is a derivative of the name 'Hugh' therefore meaning 'Hugh's Land'. Locational surnames were usually acquired by a local landowner, or by the lord of the manor, and especially by those former inhabitants of a place who moved to another area and were therafter best identified by the name of their birthplace. The surname from this source is first recorded in the latter half of the 13th Century. One Thomas de Huxeley appears in the Subsidy Rolls of Staffordshire, dated 1332 and a William Huxley is recorded in the 1530 Fine Court Rolls of Essex. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Robert de Huxeley, which was dated 1260, witness in the "Assize Court Rolls of Cheshire", during the reign of King Henry III (1216-1272). |