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Trott Name Study

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About the Project

The Trott Name Study project serves as a collaborative platform to collect information on the Trott name. The hope is that other researchers like you will join the study to help make it a valuable reference point for other genealogists who are researching or have an interest in the SRNM name.

As a One Name Study, this project is not limited to persons who are related biologically. Individual team studies can be used to branch out the research into specific methods and areas of interest, such as geographically (England Trotts), by time period (18th Century Trotts), or by topic (Trott DNA, Trott Occupations, Trott Statistics). These studies may also include a number of family branches which have no immediate link with each other. Some researchers may even be motivated to go beyond the profile identification and research stage to compile fully sourced, single-family histories of some of the families they discover through this name study project.

Also see the related surnames and surname variants.


How to Join

To join the Trott Name Study, first start out by browsing our current teams to see if there is a specific study ongoing that fits your interests. If so, feel free to add your name to the Membership list below, post an introduction comment on the specific team page, and then dive right in!

If a team does not yet exist for your particular area of interest, please contact the Name Study Coordinator: Natalie Trott for assistance.

... ... ... is a member of the Trott Name Study Project.

Once you are ready to go, you can also show your project affiliation with the ONS Member Sticker:

{{Member|ONS|name=Trott}}

Research Pages

Membership

  • Natalie Trott researching Trott families in Maine and Massachusetts.

Related Surnames and Surname Variants

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Profile Stickers

To add the Trott Name Study sticker to ancestor profiles, use the following template:
{{One Name Study|name=Trott}}
which will produce the sticker:

This profile is part of the Trott Name Study.

Categories

The main category is [[Category:Trott Name Study]]

This may be subcategorized by country, theme, etc. To do so, add categories by the naming convention:
[[Category:XXXLocation, Trott Name Study]] OR
[[Category:XXXTheme, Trott Name Study]]

Example:
[[Category:Maine, Trott Name Study]]

[[Category:Occupations, Trott Name Study]]




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Hi. I'm interested in the Trott Name Project.

I descend from Trotts on Peaks Island, Casco Bay, Maine. My grandmother, Florence Gertrude Trott was b. 1901 Peaks Island, dau to Frank Lester Trott b. 1871 Peaks Island, son of John Thomas Trott b. 1841 Peaks Island, son of Thomas Brackett Trott, son of Benjamin Trott Jr, son of Benjamin Trott, son of John Trott. John was likely the son of Samuel and Marcia Trott who and grandson of Thomas Trott of Dorchester.

There is some confusion with Trotts from the Woolwich area, many of the same name. I'm familiar with the Woolwich Trotts through my research on my Blair lineages in Woolwich back to ca 1738. To date, I haven't found a Maine connection between the Peaks Island/Falmouth and the Woolwich area Trotts.

I'm still working on connecting my Trott lineage to WikiTree profiles.

posted by Shawn Blair
Hi Shawn,

That's great! Let me know if you need more categories for the profiles. I believe my husband descends from the Woolwich area Trotts.

posted by Natalie (Durbin) Trott
Hi Natalie,

Can you tell me more about the categories for the Trott project? I'm not familiar with category usage yet, and not in name projects.

Thank you, Shawn Blair

posted by Shawn Blair
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Trott_Name_Study I set it up with a few subcategories, by location. So, for the US:https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:United_States%2C_Trott_Name_Study a few subcategories by state.

Natalie

posted by Natalie (Durbin) Trott
Thank you Natalie. A couple other questions. Should I be adding the category to spouses, and marriages (maternal links like to daughters' children)?

Another thought... I need to verify this but I'm pretty sure I found that the Woolwich/Sagadahoc Trotts connected to a different early migrant than the Portland/Peaks Island Trotts. Should we categorize the two families separately? There may be other families that settled in Maine that aren't of a direct connection, but these two are the larger groups that I've come across.

Thanks, Shawn

posted by Shawn Blair
I have nothing against categories for different lines. We can't use the "/" character in category names, so it would look more like [Category:Woolwich-Sagadahoc Lines, Trott Name Study]] or [Category:Whatever Migrant Name Line, Trott Name Study]] in which the "Whatever Migrant" would be the first in the line to migrate to North American colony. I"m not sure who that is, exactly. I usually do include spouses in the study, but I tend not to use the name study sticker on them, since they'd more likely be part of a name study for their surname at birth. I have not added the name study for my own surname to my children's; rather, I have used their surname. It's really personal choice.

Natalie

posted by Natalie (Durbin) Trott
edited by Natalie (Durbin) Trott
That goes a bit farther than I was even thinking. I like the migrant thought. For the spouses, then I'd add the category just not the study sticker. That makes sense. The daughters with the Trott surname, I'd add the study sticker and category for them but not the children (different surname). Got it.

I haven't dug into my files for the Woolwich Trotts. But, I remember a genealogy book on that Trott line just don't remember the author at this point (I should, it's a quoted works I've seen elsewhere.). Though I don't have a direct connection, I think there were Trott married to siblings in my Blair and Reed lines from Woolwich.

I have a lot of paper copies from my early research ca. 1990s and collected over time that I haven't incorporated to my digital records.

posted by Shawn Blair
Another Trott branch in NJ early 1800's. some moved to Fairfax, VA 1850, Alexandria VA and Washington DC.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Plummer-4779

posted by Mike Williamson
Hi Mike. I’m in London (England) and Chair the Trott One Name Research Group. What’s your interest in the Trott family?

Regards Bob Trott

posted by Bob Trott Mr
Bob,

I'm not that interested or at least any more than any other surname. I had posted the bit abt the Trott family in NJ and migrating to the Washington DC USA area as a general alert to whomever might be interested. My family is the Bryan family amongst others in early Piscataway MD who frequented Alexandria on the other side of the Potomac. Rebecca Bryan married Edward Plummer (probably b. MA) and his sister, Julia married John Trott of Alexandria, VA before moving to TX. I am interested in many other families in/around Washington during the US Civil War, helping my 2nd cousin whom is addressing a question why the Bryan Family wasn't implicated in the Lincoln Assassination since they were neighbors and very close friends with Mary Surratt, sociable at her tavern in Surattsville.

posted by Mike Williamson
I am interested in helping if you need any links to the UK.
posted by Ian Trott
Thanks. I haven't had much time to work on the name study lately, but when I get back to it I will be in touch. Meantime, feel free to add profiles to the study.

Natalie

posted by Natalie (Durbin) Trott
Hi Ian

I’m in London and Chair the Trott One Name Research Group. What’s your ancestry?

posted by Bob Trott Mr
I am just uploading a new GEDCOM. Can you see that? I keep my records on my laptop in Legacy 9 so don't duplicate them in Wikitree.
posted by Ian Trott

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