Good Afternoon All - DIGWEED: Not referred to by PH Reaney in his Dictionary of British Surnames. Penguin's Dictionary of Surnames defines it as being occupational Olde English for "A digger of Weeds" - Oh yes it does! Bowman's "Story of Surnames" does not list it? Kind Regards June & Roy (SANHS Member No 1066) http://www.btinternet.com/~roy.cox/index.htm -----Original Message----- From: norman.lee1 [mailto:norman.lee1@virgin.net] Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 11:40 AM To: OLD-ENGLISH-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [OEL] Re: Will of Agnis Bartlett of Aston Oxon 1609 Think Digwed or Digweed is a surname which may, of course, have evolved from Davids or Davidson or the like. Audrey ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gordon Barlow" <barlow@candw.ky> To: <OLD-ENGLISH-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 4:41 PM Subject: [OEL] Re: Will of Agnis Bartlett of Aston Oxon 1609 > > "....by Digwed her husband twelve pence ....." (not two pence) > > > What a lovely name for a husband! My guess is that the modern > development of the name is David - following a g-y shift in some local > dialect. Any other offers? > > Gordon Barlow > > > ==== OLD-ENGLISH Mailing List ==== > To contact the list administrator: > OLD-ENGLISH-admin@rootsweb.com > > ==== OLD-ENGLISH Mailing List ==== OLD-ENGLISH Web Page http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~oel/