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Origin / History of the Hartell Name

Of English locational origin this name from one of the places called: Harthill in Cheshire, recorded as ‘Herthil’ in the 1259 Court Rolls; in Derbyshire, recorded as ‘Hortil’ in the Domesday Book of 1086; and in the West Riding of Yorkshire, recorded as ‘Hertil’ in the Domesday Book.  The placename derives from the Old English ‘heorot’ meaning hart or stag plus ‘hyll’ a hill; hence ‘hill frequented by stags’.  The surname is first recorded in the latter half of the 12^th Century with one Robert de Herthil, in the Pipe Rolls of Derbyshire, 1176. The surname is also found in a number of early London church registers: Richard Harthill, married Elyn Ledson, 1544, at St. Michael Bassinshaw; Nathan, son of Robert Hardall, was christened 1564, at St. Michael Cornhill; Edward Hartill married Mary Stubins in St. James Dukes Place, 1683; and William Hartill married Elizabeth Dewberry 1697, at St. Giles Cripplegate.  In the modern idiom the surname has many variant spellings including: Hartle: Hartell; Hartles, and even Artell.

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