Tart family of Lydd

[mickawinn]

I am beginning to research this family and already can get back to the late 1700s. However I understand that it is believed they were Huguenots but early enquiries cannot trace that this is so and the name is not listed as a Huguenot name. Any pointers as to possible sources of information?

[bearkat]

It's interesting to look at familysearch to see the geographical distribution of the name TART in Kent over the years.  Many seem to come from the Faversham & Sittingbourne area.

The Romney Marsh baptism index shows the earliest TART baptism in 1809.
https://www.woodchurchancestry.org.uk/romneymarshbaptisms/

https://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/Research/Libr/MIs/MIsLydd/MIsLydd.htm
lists a Richard TART born /baptised 22nd January 1795

An online tree says the name is a variant of TAIT or TATE.

So no evidence of Huguenots so far.

[mickawinn]

I have got back to another Richard Tarte in 1766. I have read that the name came from either Tarte or Terrence and that they were Huguenots who arrived in that part of Kent and settled. It is frustrating that I can find no mention of the name in any of the usual Huguenot resources.

[grandarog]

Your Tart Surname could well have been a local corruption of the Huguenot names of 
             
            TARgeT,       TabART,         TestART         or even        Tantarin.

                                Good Luck with your quest.

[mickawinn]

Correction my second name was Tertre not Terrence!