Terral meaning | Last name Terral origin

Terral is the form of Tyrrell. Variant of Terrell, i.e., descendant of Turold or Thorold meaning "Thor, strong".

Terral is the variation of the Tirrell. One who came from Tirril, i.e., wooden hut, in Westmorland; descendant of Tirrell, a variant of Turold or Thorold that means "Thor, strong".

The surname Terral is form of Terrell. Descendant of Turold or Thorold meaning "Thor, strong"; one who came from Tirril meaning "wooden hut," in Westmorland.

Variation of the Turrell. See Thorold - A Teutonic personal name of great antiquity, which has given rise to a family name very widely spread, and much varied in spelling and pronunciation, the principal forms being Thorold, Turrold, Tyrell, Torel, Turrell, Tourelle, Torill, Tourle, Turl, etc. It comes to us from Normandy, where Turold was one of the preceptors of William the Conqueror, and his Grand -Constable at the time of the Conquest. The name of TUROLD occurs upon the Bayeux Tapestry, designating one of the ambassadors dispatched by the Norman Duke to Guy, Earl of Ponthieu, and it is supposed that the Turold there repre sented was the Grand-Constable. This celebrated man gave his name to the town of which he was lord and founder, viz., Burgus Thoroldi, now Bourgtheroude, a few miles S.W. of Rouen. In Domesday, we find a Gilbert filius Turoldi among the tenants in chief of the counties of Worcester, Hereford, Cambridge, and Warwick; while an Ilbert filius Turoldi, held a like position in the second named shire. Whether these were sons of the Grand-Constable does not appear. This seems probable, though as there are many tenants called Turold in that record, it is not positively certain. Under Essex, appears one Walterus Tirelde, who is by some supposed to be the Walter Tirel who shot Rufus.

But Thorold was also a distinguished name among the Old Norse and the Anglo-Saxons. Thorold of Buckenhale was sheriff of Lincolnshire in 1051. The Thorolds of Marston, in this shire, baronets, claim descent from that personage. For this scholar Shirley thinks there is no evidence or authority, although he admits the "very great antiquity" of the family, dating to the reign of Henry I.