This surname is derived from the name of an ancestor. 'the son of Thorald,' a favourite early and even Middle-English personal name. The surname still clings to Lincolnshire, where it was evidently popular as a personal name six centuries ago. v. Terrell and Turrell.

Turold, Domesday.

Thorold the Sheriff: Freeman, Norman Conq.

Ralph fil. Thorald, Lincolnshire, 1273. Hundred Rolls.

Torold Camerarius, Essex, ibid.

Symon Thorald, Norfolk, ibid.

Martin Torald, Oxfordshire, ibid.

William Torel, or Thorel, London, ibid.

Richard Torel, Oxfordshire, ibid.

Ralph Turold, Suffolk, ibid.

Torald de Papileon: History Dunelmensis, Surtees Soc., vii. temp. 1400.

1638. Married — Robert Chesham and Phebe Thorold: St. Michael, Cornhill.

1649. — Richard Thorrold and Mabella Gay: St. James, Clerkenwell.

From the ON. personal name Thorualdr, 'Thor ruler.' Early English forms of the name are Thurweald and Turold. Thoraldus, archdeacon of Lothian, died 1163 (Annals, p. 73). His name also appears as Thorandus for Thoraudus (RPSA., p. 191). William Torreld witnessed a charter by Robert, bishop of St. Andrews, c. 1144 (Lawrie, p. 133). He is probably the William, son of Thorald who was witness to a charter by Waldeve, son of Gospatric (RD, p. 94). Alexander filius Thor (= Thorald) witnessed a charter of the church of Kinernyn by William the Lion, c. 1201-7 (RAA, I, p. 40). A remission was granted Andrew Thorrall in Duffus, 1567 (SCM, IV, p. 155). As forename: Thorrall (1546).

TURGOT: From the Old West Norse personal name Thorgaut-r. Turgot, the confessor of Queen Margaret, wrote the Vita S. Margarete, and became bishop of St. Andrews in 1107. Turgot is still an English surname under the forms Thorogood, Thurgod, Toogood, etc.

(Scandinavian) Thor - Ruler [Old Norse Thoruald-r: v. Thor, and + Old Norse uald-r, ruler; uald, power, might] The Mod. Norwegian form is Torald.

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, &c., &c., &c. 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 represented was the Grand-Constable. Dawson Turner's Tour in Normandy, ii. 104. 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. Morant's Essex, i. 244.

THEROULDE: A French refugee family. The name is identical with Thorold.

A family of Thurgood held the Sawcemeres estate in Manuden parish during Elizabeth's reign, but shortly afterwards the estate passed out of the family (W.). Edward Thorowgood held the manor of Maylerds, Havering, in the reign of Charles II.; and in the same reign Sir Benjamin Thorowgood, lord mayor of London, owned the manor of Woodford; Catlyn Thorogood of Daweshall, Lambourn, was high sheriff of Essex in 1729: Selby Thorowgood, Esq., had an estate in Alresford in the middle of last century (M.). A Herts family of Thorowgood obtained a grant of arms last century (L.), and the name of Thirgood or Thurgood is still found in that county. Alice Thurgod lived in Bedfordshire in the 13th century (H. R.).