FAMILY HISTORY The earliest record is apparently in France, and concerns someone

FAMILY HISTORY

The earliest record is apparently in France, and concerns someone who

served William I who continued to rule Normandy after he became king of

England.

“Radulphus de Dolieta: For forgiveness of misdeeds of himself and his predecessors and successors he grants in the time of William, King of England, to the Monks of St. Michael for the brotherhood and the prayers of St. Michael and the Monks, his servants, all the dues on his lands, etc.”

[Recorded in original charters in archives of La Manche, Abbey of Mont St.

Michael for Benedictine monks in Diocese of Avranche, France, A.D.

1085-1087. ]

Dolieta was the name of a place on the coast of Normandy, probably in the province of Manche (which included the peninsula on which Cherbourg is located) near the town of Avranches and the neighboring Mt. St. Michael; and this Rudolph of Dolieta, a Norman noble, who accompanied the Conqueror appears to have been the progenitor of all our family in England.

The next record is Wiliam, son of Alan Dolatel or Dolitel, is mentioned m8d.patent 7, Edward I, year 1279.

Followed by Robert Dolittel for some offense, was granted a royal pardon “by reason of his services in Scotland”. Guildford, Jan. 20. Calendar of Patent Rolls 31, Edward I. year 1303.

In the 16th century wills and church and other records, the Doolittle family

turn up in Kidderminster, Worcestershire. Actually a half dozen Doolittle

families turn up in Kidderminster and its surrounding villages.

Kederminster (Kidderminster) developed a fair (1228) and later a market (1240). And was home to the weaving and clothing trades (Kederminster “standeth most by clothing”).

(We have records dating to Kidderminster in 1490 actually. We also have the original allocation of lands for the area to an unstated number of families who asked for new lands ‘in the north’. Although I cannot recall the date. In 1086 William owned a large manor there. )

Very hard to tell how or why the family moved from Guildford to Kidderminster, and when. But the departure from Kidderminster to Ireland, London and America seems to be both because of the civil war (puritans) and because of the collapse of the textile trade.

Then we get to the states where we get generals, and captains and all sorts of people against the crown. 🙂

So Anarchism is I guess, a genetic trait. 😉