[ANSTHRLD] Hroowyna name: Stanley

[Andrea Hicks]

Ray Smith wrote:
>
> Greetings.
> I've a client who is working on a early (c. 13th
> century) English name, Hroowyna Standohtor ye
> Staninghamm, which purportedly means "Rowena, Daughter
> of Stanley, of the people of the stone enclosure."
> However, she is having a difficult name finding
> documentation for the byname(s), Standohtor ye
> Staninghamm.
> Do any of my more skilled and talented nomismatic
> brethren have any suggestions or ideas for this?

Withycombe says that "Stanley is a surname derived from a common
place-name...and its use as a christian names is apparently a recent
development, perhaps largely due to the popularity of the explorer Henry
Stanley (1841-1904) whose real name was not Stanley but Rowlands.  The
earliest example noted is Stanley Baldwin (b. 1864). It is now a common
christian name."

If your client would like an OE <Stan-> given name, there is Stanheard
(Stanhard), Stanmaer, Stanwine. The Pre-Conquest Personal Names of the
Domesday Book by Feilitzen. From Searle there is Stan, Stanncytel,
Stangrim, and Stanhand.

I didn't find Staningham(m) in Ekwall or Mills, but should be fairly
easy to construct with pl.n. elements.

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Andrea / Maridonna

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