Where did the surname Threatt originate from? I've been told Alabama and I've also been told Louisiana.

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name: John Thrett
event: Christening
event date: 05 May 1621
event place: Hilborough, Norfolk, England
gender: Male
 
father: John Thrett
mother: Susan

Ancestral File has Miles Threatt born about 1703, father of Burwell Threatt born 4 July 1732 Virginia, died 1 Nov 1823, Dinwiddie, VA.

by Frank Gill G2G Astronaut (2.5m points)
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Look in early Prince George, Virginia records. The name has various spellings. Thweatt is one of them.
by Sandra Taylor G2G2 (2.3k points)
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See Nine Hundred Years of Thweatt Bloodline family History by Silas Allen Thweatt (I have the book, but it’s online at http://web.comporium.net/~jaft/900.txt).

You may also get something out of  "The Thweatt Family" by Claiborne Thweatt Smith, Jr. in The Southside Virginian (See http://archive.org/stream/southsidevirgini71989/southsidevirgini71989_djvu.txt).

James Thweatt, b 1643, was the immigrant to the United States.  

There are many variations of the name Thweatt, including Threatt (mostly those who went to South Carolina from Virginia) and Threet (others who went to Southern States and Wyoming) and Threewits and Threat and Thret.  It seems to have been tied to forms of Thwaite in England from 1066 and Wm the Conqueror, and, according to Silas, Denmark!

Brent

by Brent Bowen G2G1 (1.6k points)

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