[ANSTHRLD] Lovechild

[Eldwin Nightowl]

John Lovechild is listed on page 572 of English surnames : their sources and significations : Bardsley, Charles Wareing Endell, 1843-1898 as found at http://www.archive.org/stream/englishsurnamest00bardiala#page/572

The name was used by William Lovechild circa 1248 and Henry Lovechild circa 1327 according to page 235 of A Dictionary of English Surnames by Percy Hide Reaney, Richard Middlewood Wilson http://books.google.com/books?id=fPoujUPs3hYC&pg=PR7&lpg=PR7&dq=A+dictionary+of+English+surnames+By+Percy+Hide+Reaney,+Richard+Middlewood+Wilson&source=bl&ots=RVq_WAU_9j&sig=56LCxbozDeGQIo169L6mRcnfaYc&hl=en&ei=BZdHTPysL-aN4gad073VAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=lovechild&f=false


--- On Wed, 7/28/10, doug bell <magnus77840 at hotmail.com> wrote:


From: doug bell <magnus77840 at hotmail.com>
Subject: [ANSTHRLD] Lovechild
To: heralds at lists.ansteorra.org
Date: Wednesday, July 28, 2010, 11:07 AM



I checked Misplaced names in reaney & wilson, Middle English Nicknames,
and the Middle English Dictionary at
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/m/mec/med-idx?size=First+100&type=orths&q1=cild*&rgxp=constrained
and didn't find it.  It might be researched as a constructed English byname.

Magnus