Dudgeon Name Study

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How to Join

Please contact the project leader Robin Helstrom or post a comment at the foot of the page. If you have any questions, just ask. Thanks!

Goals

This is a One Name Study to collect together in one place everything about one surname and the variants of that name. The hope is that other researchers like you will join our study to help make it a valuable reference point for people studying lines that cross or intersect.

Task List

• Connect Dudgeon families
• Clean up Dudgeon profiles
• Link and/or clean up Notable Dudgeon profiles

Name Origin

This surname has two distinct possible origins. First it may be the patronymic form of the male given name Dodge, a pet form of Roger. Hrothgar was an Anglo-Saxon name deriving from the elements "hroth" meaning fame and "gar" a spear, Roger, becoming a favourite form from the time of the Domesday Book of 1086 onward. It may also come from the obsolete word "dudgeon", a wood used in making the handles of knives and daggers etc. and would have been an occupational surname for a turner or cutler.

The surname is first recorded in the early half of the 14th Century. In the modern idiom the name is found as Dodgen, Dodgeon, Dodgin and Dudgeon. Early recordings of the surname from London church registers include; Thomas Dudgeon, who married Margery Garret, on October 5th 1607, at St. Giles, Cripplegate. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Thomas Doioun, which was dated 1327, in the "Subsidy Rolls of Essex", during the reign of King Edward 111, known as "The Father of the Navy", 1327 - 1377.

Source: SurnameDB - Dudgeon

Notable Dudgeons

• Cecil Dudgeon, politician
• Gus Dudgeon, record producer
• James Dudgeon, footballer
• Joe Dudgeon, English footballer
• John Dudgeon, physician
• Neil Dudgeon, actor
• Patrick Dudgeon, mineralogist
• Richard Dudgeon, mechanic