Thursday, February 20, 2014

Work in Progress: Scottish Naming Patterns in 13th-15th cen. Latin documents

I'm throwing up some work in progress based on data from the Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707 database (http://www.rps.ac.uk/).  This project involves identifying naming patterns found in Scottish records.  As I crunch progressively more data, I hope to start developing a list of Scottish name patterns for Appendix A of SENA.

For the 13th century data, name patterns can be found in my article "Names from 13th Century Scottish Parliamentary Records" (http://heraldry.sca.org/names/Namesfrom13thCenturyScottishParliamentaryRecords.html).

Patterns found in 14th and 15th century Latin documents include:

[given name] + de + [place name]

[given name] + [family name or inherited surname]

The pattern [given name] + filius + [father's name in the genitive form] seems to start falling out of use in documents in the mid 14th cen.

The pattern [given name] + [family name or inherited surname] + de + [place name] appears in Latin documents in Scotland from the 14th cen. onwards:

Willelmum la Zousch’ de Assheby (1328)
Petrus Waghorn de Dunbretane (1357)
Thomas Lang de Drumfres (1357)
Johannes Goldsmyth de Edynburgh (1357)
Johanne Forstar de Corstorfyne (1410)
Willelmo Lazousch de Askeby (1416)
Dauid Menyhes de Vogry (1426)
Johannes Spens de Perthe (1435)

I also find double locatives marked with ‘de’ in Latinized documents in the 14th and 15th centuries:

Dauidis de Balfour de Balifesuey (1315)
Alexandri de Ramsay de Dalhousie (1315)
Willelmo de Douglass de Bothwell (1404)
Johannis de Scrimegeour de Henristoun (1423)
Jacobi de Douglas de Balvani (1423)
Patricii de Dunbar de Bele (1423)
Roberti de Lawedre de Edrington' (1423)
Walterus de Halyburtoun de Dyrltoun (1435)
Thomas de Camera de Abirdene (1435)


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