Now, I’d like to introduce 4 real characters, who lived here between the 5th and 6th centuries AD.
Eadgar / Edgar (Wealthy spear)
Eadmund / Edmund (Wealthy protector)
Eadweard / Edward (Wealthy guardian)
Ælfræd / Alfred (Elf counsel / Wise counsel)
Wulfstan (Wolf stone)
Eadgyth / Edith (Wealthy battle)
Æthelflæd / Ethelfled (Noble beauty)
Ælfgifu / Elfgifu (Elf gift)
Ealdgyth / Aldith (Old battle)
Æthelthryth / Audrey (Noble strength)
Place names
Ton
Ham
Bury
Wich
Worth
Stead
Ing
These suffixes describe a natural or geographical feature.
Ford
Leigh/Ley
Den/Dean
Low/Hoe
Hurst
Bourne/Burn
Earl of Lathom
Birth: circa 1031 Lancashire, England (United Kingdom)
Death: October 12, 1092 (56-65) Lathom House, Lancashire, England (United Kingdom)
Place of Burial: Lancashire, England (United Kingdom)
Immediate Family:
Husband of Marigard of Essex/Wessex �Father of Maud de Lathom and Siward de Lathom, 2nd Earl of Lathom
25th Great Grandfather
Ancestor of the wife of Jeremiah Clarke
Sir Dunning de Lathom, 1st Earl of Lathom. In the Spring of 1067 A.D. Born: Abt.1031, In what was then Saxon, England.
Married Lady Marigard de Essex of Essex & Avon on 28 May 1068, Chapelry of Lathom, Lathom, Lancashire, England.
Died: 12 Oct 1092, Lathom House, Lancashire, England. Interred: Chapelry of Lathom Cemetery, Lathom, Lancashire England.
He is the earliest known Lathom and the first to bear the Lathom surname was a Saxon individual living in the county of Lancashire, England. He was named Dunning de Lathom; Some call him a traitor to his people, for he collaborated with the Normans during their invasion in 1066. Perhaps he didn't have much of a choice in the matter; it could be his family or the entire town would be put to the sword if he didn't assist the Normans. We'll never know, for it was not recorded to my knowledge. For assisting the Normans they gave Dunning the Lordship of the Chapelry of Lathom, Lathom house and its' surrounds, (the town of Lathom itself would later become a part of Ormskirk, Lancashire, England).
From Miscellanea Palatina, 1850:
Dunning, father of Siward, the earliest proprietor named in this Inquisition, would be coeval with Domesday. It is not quite certain whether the Lalune of that Survey, situated between Ribble and Mersey in Derby Hundred,' relates to Lathom (Ladhun), nor whether Dunning was a continued possessor or a Norman grantee, but his name, which was the name also of the Lord of Kingsleyin Cheshire, a Saxon suffered to continue, marks his race.
According to this- http://www.angelfire.com/mi4/polcrt/Latham.html he may have been the son of Ughtred by Elgifu.
The Lathoms were an Anglo-Saxon family that lived in Latham Manor in West Riding Yorkshire, England. Latham House was originally a lofty tower called "The Eagles." Sir Dunning Latham, Earl of Latham (a Saxon lord) was living in Lancaster County about the time of the Norman Conquest. He married Lady Marigard of Avon and Essex, the daughter of the Duke of Essex.
Sir Dunning Latham sided with the Normans, thus betraying the Saxon people. His lordship was given to him by the Normans because of his choice. Sir Dunning was granted his lordship of the Chapelry of Lathom in 1067. His wife's father also sided with the Normans.
Sir Dunning Latham and his wife Lady Marigard de Essex, had a son named Siward. Siward was born in 1073. Marigard died during his birth and Dunning never remarried, and he died in 1092, of pneumonia.
Sir Dunning of Latham was thought to have been the son of Ughtred. Uchtred/Ughtred was the Earl of Northumberland. He married Elgiva of England. Ichtred was the son-in-law of Ethelred II, "the Unready," King of England (d. 1016) who was married to (1) Alfflaed.
The name Latham first appears in English records in 1266.