Margrett ancestry HOME PAGE

Bruce Margrett began constructing this site in December 2012.  It's function is to share biographies of ancestors of Margrett Families.

 Bruce's research into the family name began in 1981 and a Profile of the Margrett research work can be found at

 http://www.one-name.org

Not yet studied are the family history records of the events in Argentina and Australia of Margrett families where they have lived since before 1900 and continue to live.

 Contributions of Margrett  traces and events from worldwide Margrett families are welcome. 

 Mostly annually, a  Margrett Magazine was distributed to about 70 families worldwide to share the latest discoveries and then-current family news from 1986, ceasing in  2012. 

Many of the biographies on this site are from articles already published.  From 1986 to 2012, research and family news has been published in 26 Margrett Magazines. Copies of each of these have been deposited with the British Library Copyright Office under ISSN 0269-0284, as well as with the Gloucestershire County Archives and the Guild of One-Name Studies.  

 There is no confident explanation yet of the origin of the family name, and the three theories, the frequency and distribution of the name can be found described in the Profile at the GOONs Guild web-site. In September 2015 a DNA  project was started by Bruce Margrett. The personal results currently only show that we are of European origin, and the hope is that further work will be more geographically specific.

 Hopefully, other males with the family name will be willing to also explore their DNA links and origins.

 The national Census Returns of 1841 to 1921 give a pretty full measure of the number of actual people living at the time of each U.K. Census with the family name "Margrett" or "Margretts". The result of this extraction shows between 122 and 183 people, varying in each of the eight decades . The 2016 Electoral Rolls currently list 192 people with the family name in the UK. A small family line.