Anyone researching the name Tazzyman should look for information under the name Tasman as it seems that the name can be traced back to John Tasman born in Lincolnshire England around 1700. In my husband's family it was said that the name originated from Holland and that they came over to drain the fens in the 1600s. We have not been able to establish a connection. Has anyone any information?
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Their are variations of the name Tissiman . Tessyman Tesseman Tezziman and others mostly from around Yorkshire England they are derived from the name trasmundus then tessymond [ Guy Fawkes of the gunpowder plot fame had an Tessymond among his gang. good hunting. Rod Tissiman. try searching Tissiman with the soundex on.
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I am also researching the Tazzyman family. Although my ancestors were in Lincolnshire in the 18th and 19th centuries and then moved to Yorkshire I have a gut feeling that they may have originated from the Tesmond/Tesmundes in Norfolk who were there from around the mid 1500s to the late 1600s I am open to suggestions - have compiled a database of around 2000 Tazzyman variations. Hopefully some pattern may emerge.
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Hi, I have a Mary TAZZY who married Michael Heads in 1802 at Dowsby Lincolnshire England. I can find no other Tazzy names, and wondered if it is a missspelling of Tazzyman. I can not find her parents. Has anyone else come across the name Tazzy?
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I have come across hundreds of Tassies but only 2 Tazzy's. The one you have and a Mazy Tazzy in London inthe 1700's. At the moment I haven't found a connection but if anything comes up I will let you know. There were several people called Tassie in the Leicester area and yours could be one of them which was misspelt. - Mary
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Hello, I am beginning to wonder if my family on the maternal side is linked to Tazzyman/Tazzy, My mothers maiden name was Tazey, my grandfather was George Tazey, his father also George, all from Newcastle/Yorkshire/Co Durham, England also found a James Tazey from Shrewsbury. Struggling to get any info from earlier than 1870's, so does anyone know where this name originates from, please enlighten me.. thanks Angie
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Its actually my husbands name, and he and his dad and his grandfarther lived in sheffield, we have moved away from there now .
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My interest in Tazzyman started with my maternal grandmother Florence Tissiman. There appear to be relatively few Tissimans and they were a respelling of Tesseyman around Scarborough, Yorkshire at the beginning of the 19th century.
In pursuit of various branches I started collected variants of the Tesseyman name and believe most of them are phonetic variants when one person has moved to an area with a different accent. For example some Tesseymans moved to Northumberland and the name changed to Tessimond. Descendants of them went to Cheshire/Lancashire and generally kept Tessimond although there are also Tessimands.
I wonder if Tesseyman spoken with a Yorkshire accent would sound like Tassyman or Tazzyman to a Lincolnshire ear and if so this may signify a connection.
Other variants I have encountered include Tisseman, Tissyman, Tissimond and Tesman.
It is commonly believed in my family and Tissiman relative's families that our 'Tissiman' ancestor came from Scandinavia. This would probably have been Tesman as in the Ibsen play 'Hedda Gabler'! One would have to see what a Yorkshireman writes when hearing a Norwegian or Swede say Tesman to see if to their ear it is Tesseyman.
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Hello - I have been researching the Yorkshire Tazzymans for some time now. My branch led me back to Lincolnshire. Since then however I have come across Tesimonds from Norfolk in the 16th and 17th centuries. Tesimond in Norfolk would probably sound like Tazman in Lincolnshire, thence to Tessyman and or Tazzyman in Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire, depending on the local area dialect. There were a few Tesmonds in Norfolk one of whom was a cordwainer and another was a goldsmith. This may be where the continental influence is as during that time a lot of tradesmen came over from Holland and settled in that area to ply their trades. The majority of them being goldsmiths, glovers and cordwainers. A John Tesmonde became Mayor of Norwich sometime between 1545 and 1604 (I have details of the dates in my files but I haven't got them just to hand). I lost this family in the mid 1600s and then John Tazman appeared in Castle Bytham records around 1700 -there must be a connection. These are my thoughts on the subject of the Tazzymans. I am a direct descendant of John Tazman born around 1700 in Castle Bytham. Another aspect I have found is that tracing the movement of the Tazzymans from Lincoln, they all seemed to settle not far from the A1 north - did they travel north with the army and settled en route. Who knows.
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Your research covers many more years than mine so it appears that the move in the 18th century was into rather than from Yorkshire.
Either way, we all seem to agree that the many variants came from countries outside the UK such as Scandinavia, the Low Countries and/or Germany. From what I know of their names Tesman was the most likely root but there may have been others.
The only alternative that I have heard is Tessier, a Huguenot name generally associated with cloth industry workers.
The Tasman variant also gives us the honour of having a colony, now state, in its memory, Tasmania.
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