The majority of surnames in England gradually came into being in the centuries following the Norman invasion in 1066, and initially only a few prominent families would have used them. People were instead known by a personal name together with a description of, for example, [...]

John Thomas Tusting farmed at Church Farm from 1884 to 1897. His distant ancestors (then known as Tustin) lived in the village of Marnham in Nottinghamshire. His 5 times g-grandfather was a yeoman farmer there in the first half of the 17th century, but subsequent [...]