Medieval English families on the internet: D

Dacre

• Thomas Fiennes, Baron Dacre of the South [d.1541] (J.A. Tappero)
  Extracts from Thomas Barrett-Lennard, An Account of the Families of Lennard and Barrett (1908), and other sources; see also Lennard

Dameron

• Dameron-Damron connection with Westerfield Manor and Henley and Henley Hall of Suffolk, England (Charles C. Chaney, Dameron-Damron Family Association)
  Extracts from W.A. Copinger, The Manors of Suffolk (1905-11), 15th century and later

Daniell

• Search for Robert Daniell (Thomas R. Daniel)
  Cheshire, 13th century and later; the "Daniells of Tabley & Daresbury" section includes an extract from George Ormerod, The History of the City and County Palatine of Chester (1882), and a pedigree based on the same work

Despenser

• Despencer Line (Earl of Winchester) (Homer Beers James/Paul McBride)
  Narrative pedigree, 13th-14th centuries; this material, based on older secondary sources, should be treated with caution
• Hugh le Despenser: Three Generations (Pat Patterson)
  Notes, from the Dictionary of National Biography, on the 13th- and 14th-century Despensers
• See also Spencer

Docwra

• Docwra Family Research Project
  The Archive Documents section (within the Research Section) includes notes and record transcripts from the 12th century and later; the site also contains a database of individuals, pedigrees, brief biographies, a bibliography, and sections on the origins of the name and on heraldry

Doggett

• The English antecedents of the Rev. Benjamin Doggett (James D. Doggett)
  Detailed account of the Suffolk Doggetts (16th century and later)

Drake

• The Drake Family in England and America 1360-1895 ... (Louis Stoughton Drake, 1896)
  Includes some notes on medieval Drakes; the alleged Saxon Dracos should be taken with a pinch of salt

Drury

• The Drury Genealogy Page (GenealogySource.com)
  Sources for the history of the Drury family of Suffolk, including:
  • Arthur Campling, The History of the Family of Drury of Norfolk and Suffolk, from the Conquest (1937)
  • Rev. Sir John Cullum, The History and Antiquities of Hawsted, in the County of Suffolk (1784)
    Extract concerning the Drury family, text of Chapter 3, Lords of the Manor, and other Proprietors of Land, and images of chart pedigrees
  • R.M. Drury, Drury Family Papers, (1889)
    Images of manuscript notes, in progress
  • J.J. Muskett, Suffolk Manorial Families, vol.1 (1899,1900)
    Images of pages relating to the Drury family

Dryden

• Dryden (David Blackwell)
  Brief notes; Cumberland/Northamptonshire, 16th century; extract from The American Ancestors of Oratio Dyer Clark and of his wife Laura Ann King by J.E. Salisbury and G.C. Martin (1917)

Dufton

• The History of the Dufton Name (Bernard Dufton) [formerly at http://members.ozemail.com.au/~mdufton/history.htm; not available, 27 February 2007; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page, from September 2005]
  Notes on occurrences of the surname, Westmorland/Cumberland/Yorkshire, 12th-16th centuries

Duke

• Duke Family History (doc format; Lynn Teague/Graham Milne)
  Extensive notes on occurrences of the surname in England, 12th-16th centuries.

Dutton

• Hatton of Hatton, and Vernon and Dutton of Hatton (Matthew Ortiz, Ortiz-Cowger Genealogy Database) [formerly at http://members.nbci.com/ocgenealogy/hchatton.htm; not available, 2 November 2003]
  Scanned chart pedigree from Ormerod's History of Cheshire (2nd edn, 1882)
• Dutton of Dutton (Matthew Ortiz, Ortiz-Cowger Genealogy Database) [formerly at http://members.nbci.com/ocgenealogy/hcdutton.htm; not available, 2 November 2003]
  Scanned narrative from Ormerod's History of Cheshire (2nd edn, 1882)

Dymoke

• The Dimmick (Dymokes) Story and More Dymokes History (Marc Dimmick)
  Notes on the Dymokes of Scrivelsby, Lincolnshire, 14th century and later, from Dymock down the ages by J.E. Gethyn Jones