WorldCat Home About WorldCat Help. Whoever she was, she was clearly something special. Please re-enter recipient e-mail address(es).The name field is required. Reliable information about the coronavirus (COVID-19) is available from the World Health Organization (Please choose whether or not you want other users to be able to see on your profile that this library is a favorite of yours. It was the third smallest county after Middlesex and Rutland.So, where is Huntingdonshire? This name is: Blunt (in its possessive form, Bluntes) and the Old English word for “homestead”. I have a few articles bookmarked to read on unfairly blaming Norman scribes, so don’t accept that as gospel, but it’s certainly what you’ll find in older introductions to the topic.So, this is why that if you’re looking for the oldest form of a name you really want either something older than 1086, or something from a similar time but a different source, so that you can compare spellings.Now, as someone who is regularly called an angry feminist at work it would be highly remiss of me not to feature the only woman in my corpus. On the whole, Huntingdonshire as a county-level place name survived 1965.

(All British settlers have enjoyed cutting down trees, sadly.) The earliest recorded name is Bluntisham, from 907, and there are lots more from the tenth century too. Hundreds were places where justice was dealt out. The place-names of Bedfordshire & Huntingdonshire.

Well, first things first:Now we’re talking my language! )Hopefully you can match the names and get a sense of where Huntingdonshire maps onto Cambridgeshire. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. Huntingdonshire - WordReference English dictionary, questions, discussion and forums. Your Web browser is not enabled for JavaScript. According to my undergraduate research, This is the name behind the oldest name in my corpus: Bluntisham. Some features of WorldCat will not be available. It is a product of when the family lived in the settlement of Huntingdon in the county of Huntingdonshire, or in one of the various places called Huntington in Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, and the North Riding of Yorkshire.. This collection contains baptismal, marriage, and burial records from 1538-1983 from the Church of England in the county of Huntingdonshire. The earliest recorded name is Bluntisham, from 907, and there are lots more from the tenth century too. Now, onwards! The stone still exists but not in its original position, it now sits outside the church. The double name had a double virtue, that of keeping Huntingdonshire alive – in tourism and postal addresses, for instance – and of recognizing the importance of a large, historic town whose roots were in another shire. (Also, if anyone knows the origin of this map, please do tell me!! The above mentioned fiche are available from the Huntingdonshire FHS. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! Its earliest form makes it even more obvious: Godmundcestre. 25 place names in Cambridgeshire we really struggle to pronounce. This guy had Haddon named after him. All Free. Great Domesday (the larger volume) and Little Domesday (the smaller volume), in their 1869 bindings, lying on their older "Tudor" bindings. The name Huntington is part of the ancient legacy of the Anglo-Saxon tribes of Britain.

If you look at its earliest form, you can see that possessive -es again: Believe it or not, this is the name behind Abbotsley. Domesday Book: an engraving published in 1900. Please enter the subject. This was the man immortalised in the settlement name Godmanchester. This is a great example of how you should never, ever trust modern names when you’re looking for older forms. The names that I looked at are dotted all over the county. Cambridgeshire, administrative, geographic, and historic county of eastern England.The administrative county covers a much larger area than the ancient shire, or historic county. Obviously it means clearing!”)There’s another lesson in this next name. I’ll address the -chester element properly in another post, but for now just know that this was the word that Anglo-Saxons used to denote a Roman fort, town, road station, anything like that. Her eponymous village is Buckden, and its second element is Thanks for reading, and come back tomorrow for the way that we can mirror the invasions of England (and thus Huntingdonshire) through the languages used in its names!Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: There’s no Abbot here! If you don’t know what that superhuman piece of recording is, please, please And the accepted wisdom is that the Norman scribes doing the recording couldn’t handle Anglo-Saxon spellings or names and so Norman-ised them. Parish registers have been kept at the local level across England since the mid-1500s. Search for Library Items Search for Lists Search for Contacts Search for a Library. [A Mawer; F M Stenton] Home. Please enter the message.Would you also like to submit a review for this item?The subject field is required. Price New from Used from Paperback "Please retry" $19.99 . Please enter recipient e-mail address(es).The E-mail Address(es) you entered is(are) not in a valid format. Where I squeal about anything in Britain between 500CE and 1300CE, and try to make it fun to read.For this next set of posts, I’m going to pick a selection of names from my county, Huntingdonshire.