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Dictionary of
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Origin and Etymology of the Surname ARKWRIGHT.
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From
A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames, by C. W. E. Bardsley,
A. Bardsley, 1901.
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ARKWRIGHT.
An occupational name meaning
"the arkwright," a maker of arks. This article of
furniture was a north English manufacture, and the surname originated
there. The ark was the old-fashioned meal-chest.
"When this corn to the kniht
was sold,
He did it in an arc to hold,
And opened this arc the third day."
Tale of a Usurer.
In an inventory of household goods,
dated 1559, are mentioned "one trussin bed, with a teaster of yealow and
chamlet, one old arke, old hanggers, of wull grene and red," &c.:
Richmondshire Wills, p. 135. Twenty years earlier I find the
contents of a "mylke howse" including "an arke, a tub, a stande,
a chyrne": ibid. p. 42. In the same book a sheep is bequeathed
to one Henry Arkwright, p. 155, note.
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C, D, E,
F, G, H,
I, J, K,
L, M, N,
O, P, Q,
R, S, T,
U, V, W,
X, Y, Z
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