TUITE

TUITE. This surname is local, and probably of Nomi an -Conquest importation into England. It was introduced into Irelaud at Strougbow's invasion. Richard de Tuite, who engaged in that expedition, obtained from his leader fair possessions in Teffta. and was made a palatine peer by the title of Baron of Moyashill. He was killed in 1211, by the fall of a tower in Athlone. D'Alton.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.