Posting my Buckinghamshire interests GUN WRIGHT PEARCE WEST PETTY SADLER FINCHER PRYOR LANGSTON SPICER WHITHALL SPICER BRAZIER TILBURY DARVELL HAZEL TAYLOR JESKINS HAZEL PUDDIFOOT READING FLEXMAN ...I had no idea there were so many til I started to write them down! Sue

Where have you got with your DARVELLs? I have some - see http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=pji&I11.x=0&I11.y=0 I also have a little more information than is on that tree, so if you have any specific questions, particularly if they're about Darvells on that tree, or linked to anyone on it, I may be able to help. Paul SUSAN DIXON wrote: > Posting my Buckinghamshire interests > > GUN WRIGHT PEARCE WEST PETTY SADLER FINCHER PRYOR LANGSTON SPICER WHITHALL SPICER BRAZIER TILBURY DARVELL HAZEL TAYLOR JESKINS HAZEL PUDDIFOOT READING FLEXMAN ...I had no idea there were so many til I started to write them down! > Sue > *************************************** > > BGS Website: http://www.bucksgs.org.uk/ > BFHS Website: http://www.bucksfhs.org.uk/ > Bucks Genuki Website: http://met.open.ac.uk/genuki/big/eng/BKM/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > >

Sue, I have... Susanna SPICER (b1814) m Samuel HEARN (1814 ~ 1888) at Chesham on 29 Sept 1835. Amelia PEARCE (b abt1838) m [Daniel] Samuel AMIES (1837 ~ 1912) at Townfield Yard Chapel on 18 July 1889. If either of these are part of your "tree" I would love to hear from you. There were many PUDDIFOOTs and variants in the Chesham area. Regards, Robert -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of SUSAN DIXON Sent: 17 October 2007 19:03 To: [email protected] Subject: [BKM] Posting my Buckinghamshire interests Posting my Buckinghamshire interests GUN WRIGHT PEARCE WEST PETTY SADLER FINCHER PRYOR LANGSTON SPICER WHITHALL SPICER BRAZIER TILBURY DARVELL HAZEL TAYLOR JESKINS HAZEL PUDDIFOOT READING FLEXMAN ...I had no idea there were so many til I started to write them down! Sue *************************************** BGS Website: http://www.bucksgs.org.uk/ BFHS Website: http://www.bucksfhs.org.uk/ Bucks Genuki Website: http://met.open.ac.uk/genuki/big/eng/BKM/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi Susan The Puddifoot Name My Mother's maiden name was Puddephatt which is one of the variants that also include Puddifoot, Pudifoot, Puddefoot, Puddiphatt, Pudefat, Pudifat and Podifat She always said that when she was at school other children called her 'Pudding Fat' - which is hardly surprising as her surname was Puddephatt. This nickname was not far off the original derivation of the name. The first element of the name 'Pudde' is probably the dialectal 'puddy' or 'poddy' which in Old English meant round or stout in the belly. This came from the Germanic root 'pud(d) meaning to swell or bulge (i.e. as found in the word 'pudding' - which is something that swells up when cooked). In Low German the word 'puddig' meant thick or stumpy. In Old English the word 'puduc' meant a wen (ie a fat spot or lump) and the dialectal 'pod' was used to describe a large protuberant belly (in which form it still is often used). In Modern English peas grow in a pod that swells up as the peas inside ripen. It is clear that the second element 'Phatt' is not 'foot' but 'fat' from the Old English 'fat' meaning a vessel. With the introduction of the letter 'v' into English (it was not used in Old German) this word became our 'vat' meaning tub or cask. So someone given the name Puddephatt would be a person with a prominent paunch. In medieval England the 'd' would have been pronounced as a 't'. Thus Pudifat (and Puddephatt) would have been pronounced 'putifat' or even 'putifet'. The 't' pronunciation lives on in modern English words such a pot and potty - a fat pot (or Pudifat) that goes under the bed. The earliest reference to the name that I can locate is one Roger Pudifat in Cambridgeshire in 1188. The same gentleman (or someone of the same name) reappears in Hertfordshire in 1233. In 1212 there was a Herbert Pudifat in Yorkshire and in 1213 a Richard Pudefed in Oxfordshire. As spelling did not start to become standardised until the 17th century and as spoken English underwent a great vowel shift some two centuries earlier there are many different written versions of the name one of which was Puddifoot. Even in the 20th Century my Mother found that most people when writing her surname would spell it Puddifoot not Puddephatt. Pddifoot seems to roll off the tongue easier in the Bedfordshire/Buckinghamshire dialects. It would appear that the surname in its many different forms was largely restricted to the counties of Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire. So it would appear that for the past 1000 years the Puddephatts/Puddifoots have not been great travellers. If you get stuck chasing back your Puddifoot forebears try looking up the other spelling variants and try searching in North Hertfordshire in particular. Cheers Doug Rickard Sydney, Australia ----- Original Message ----- From: "SUSAN DIXON" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 4:03 AM Subject: [BKM] Posting my Buckinghamshire interests > Posting my Buckinghamshire interests > > GUN WRIGHT PEARCE WEST PETTY SADLER FINCHER PRYOR LANGSTON SPICER WHITHALL SPICER BRAZIER TILBURY DARVELL HAZEL TAYLOR JESKINS HAZEL PUDDIFOOT READING FLEXMAN ...I had no idea there were so many til I started to write them down! > Sue > *************************************** > > BGS Website: http://www.bucksgs.org.uk/ > BFHS Website: http://www.bucksfhs.org.uk/ > Bucks Genuki Website: http://met.open.ac.uk/genuki/big/eng/BKM/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message