This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Radcliffe / de Tailbois Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/RGCBAEB/794.1.1 Message Board Post: Ivo de Tailbois of Normandy, France accompanied William the Conqueror to England in 1066. His great grandson, Nicholas was the first man named Radcliffe and it was spelled Radeclive in the Domesday Book of 1086. They were all Roman Catholics in those days. The de Tailbois background was Norwegian Viking. Ivo was not a nice man.