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.

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.

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.).