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     Welcome to the Treadway Web; aiding in your genealogical needs. The intent of this Website is to place as many Treadway, Treadaway, Tredway,Tredaway families into their perspective lines.  By the late 1400’s in England, our surname had spread to many counties.  By the 1600’s our surname or variants of were in Co’s. Buckinghamshire Essex, Hertfordshire, Lincolnshire, London, Middlesex. York, and so many others.

     There were many families in England and we have a few of them here.   Currently we have: Henry Tredway of Beaconsfield, John’s of Hayes and West Drayton, Joseph Tredway of Wooburn, Thomas of Hertfordshire, and Walter Tredway of Amersham.  Hopefully, our database will continue to grow.

       In the States there were four distinct Treadway, Treadaway, Tredway families in the 1600’s and early 1700’s living on the Eastern Coast which most of us have descended. There was Henry Treadway of Gloucester Co., New Jersey, also of the Quaker faith, Nathaniel Treadway of Watertown, and Sudbury, Massachusetts, Richard Treadway of Baltimore Co., Maryland and Thomas Tredway of England and Baltimore and Harford Co’s, Maryland.

     According to the Surname Database, the surname of Treadway, Treadaway, Tredway, Tredaway and also Tredry are Anglicized forms of the Cornish (Celtic) surname of Threthway and Thretheway, located in and around Cornwall. The meaning of our surname is “David’s Settlement”; “tre” meaning settlement or homestead and “Dewi” meaning the personal name of David which translates to beloved. 

     Thomas Treadway tells us the following:  “During one of my last visits to Cornwall I went to Trethewey. It consists of only a few buildings, houses, barns, etc. and is located in a protective knoll between the hills about 7-10 km from Lands End. During the winter these hills protect the hamlet (too small to be a village) from the worst of the winds. Family legend has it that it is named for the home of Robert of Trethwey (sp?) of France, a cousin/relative of William the Conqueror. His village is thought to be in Brittany France and may no longer exist”.

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