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• About the Bertie One-Name Study
• Origin of the surname
• Contact Details

About the Bertie One-Name Study

This is a new study of the BERTIE surname and is in its infancy. Therfore any assistance is greatly appreciated.

Origin of the surname

Whilst at present I do not have the exact origin of the surname, there are suggestions that the name may have decended from the Saxons.

BE1883 reports that this family first came to England with the Saxons from Bertiland in Prussia. They gave their name to Bersted in Kent. What was probably the senior branch of the family fled England for France at the beginning of the 11th century but returned in the middle of the 12th.

There are occurrences of the Surname in English times dating back to 16th Century with the aristocratic line of Robert Bertie of Bertsted, Kent.

There is also a Scottish line possibly goes back to 946 A.D. but has not been linked into the English line (information courtesy of Evelyn Radford nee Bertie)

Contact details

For further information, contact:

Mr Ian Bertie
38 Lee Way,
Glasshoughton,
Castleford,
West Yorkshire
WF10 4TQ
UNITED KINGDOM
E-mail:

This page last updated 4 August 2008.

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