Margrett ancestry HOME PAGE
Bruce Margrett is a member number 0461 of the Guild of One Name Studies.
and is registered as researching the names "Margrett" and "Margretts".
Bruce Margrett may be contacted by e-mail at
2012 Webb Site opened. 2015 added Alfred 1839, Alfred 1867, Charles 1809. 2016 added Charles 1870, George 1829, John James 1840, John William 1854. 2021, re-formatted and added Stephen 1825, Elizabeth CAVE 2023, added 1921 census and details from the WW2 National Register 2024, updated Charles Henry, Harold Clitherow, William 1787
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
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.