Medieval London Names - find the documentation!

Post date: Aug 11, 2015 7:46:46 PM

Medievalist.net had two recent posts about names from medieval London - for girls and for boys. Here I will attempt to find SCA-registerable documentation for those names.

It turns out that the female names were easier to document than the male names. I'm still working on a few of the male names, and I only found some as surnames so far...

Female names

• Scolastica - Feminine Names from Devon, 1238
• Petronilla - Feminine Names from Devon, 1238
• Gunnora - Feminine Given Names in Dictionary of English Surnames, Gunnora
• Dyonisia - Feminine Given Names in Dictionary of English Surnames, Denise (relies on the i/y swap)
• Felicia - Feminine Given Names in Dictionary of English Surnames, Felicia
• Wymarka - Suffolk Fines from Raw Data
• Isolda - Feminine Names from Devon, 1238
• Leticia - Feminine Given Names in Dictionary of English Surnames, Lettice
• Diamanda - Feminine Given Names in Dictionary of English Surnames, Diamanda
• Sabine - Index of Names in the 1292 Subsidy Roll of London - Feminine Names

Male names

• Hamo - Masculine Given Names Found in the 1332 Lay Subsidy Rolls for Lincolnshire, England
• Manekyn
• Iter
• Drew - Pre-1600 English Brass Inscriptions
• Anketyn
• Pentecost - Index of Names in the 1292 Subsidy Roll of London
• Ingelram - Masculine Given Names Found in the 1332 Lay Subsidy Rolls for Lincolnshire, England
• Sewale - as a byname/patronymic, Index to the 1332 Lay Subsidy Rolls for Lincolnshire, England, sorted by byname
• Osmund - as a byname/patronymic, Index to the 1332 Lay Subsidy Rolls for Lincolnshire, England, sorted by given name
• Gocelin - Masculine Given Names Found in the 1332 Lay Subsidy Rolls for Lincolnshire, England