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D'ACRE in UK
Fri, 15 Dec 2006 21:08:52 +1100 (EST)
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cathy carley...
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GDAY:)
Thanks for the Replies on D'ACRE..Yes i have seen those different Spellings, In Ireland, Dakers, DEAKER, etc, Wondering if these different spellings connect to My lot.
With the Cumbria lot of D'ACRE s mentioned , were they involved in Silk weaving?as my lot of D'ACRES aparently started a silk weaving industry in Montrath Queens County Ireland, French Refugees..
Chris Dickinson...
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The Dacres of Dacre, Gilsland, Greystoke and Naworth were a great baronial
family in Cumberland that go back seven hundred years or so. No doubt a few
of their descendants somewhere sometime became silk weavers!
There used to be rather a phase of giving highly romanticised origins for
English surnames; and it's very easy to dress up Dacre as D'Acre. Looking at
the description of their coat of arms (which included a ragged staff), I
imagine that they themselves claimed crusading origins.
It's not impossible that your Dacres were anglicised Irish from a French
import - but the mundane version is more likely, especially as so many
Cumbrians migrated to Ireland c1650-1720. I'd guess that Quaker registers
might throw up a hint or two.
Of course, it's not always easy to discern the truth from documents - as the
last Lord Dacre found out to his cost! :-)
Don Aitken...
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He was, of course, the holder of a modern life peerage (Dacre of
Glanton). The current holder of the original barony of 1321 is Rachel
Chris Dickinson...
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Perhaps I should have made that clear!
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Douglas-Home.
Chris Dickinson...
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Ah now ... I had always thought that the original barony went extinct; but
looking just now at a website about it, it seems that the second and third
creation went extinct, but the first survived. One lives and learns.
Still, so far as the surname goes, Dacre of Dacre ended a long time ago!
Cheeky lot, these titled families. 30+ years ago I was at a dinner party
where Hugh Trevor-Roper was sitting next to me on my left (can't quite
remember whether he had the life peerage then or not) and Harry Percy
opposite - but his Percy name had been assumed by a Smithson a few
generations earlier. Harry Smithson isn't quite so dashing!
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Cathy:)
Chris Watts...
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Did you pick up the recent name change to D'HECTARE?
The old jokes are the best - and that's all I know!
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