[SCA-U] Fw: SC - Fw: Re: [SCA-U] Copying Old Documents

[Alderton, Philippa]

- -Poster: Elysant <Snowfire at mail.snet.net>

On Thu, 05 Aug 1999, "Michael F. Gunter" <michael.gunter at fnc.fujitsu.com> wrote:
>I love the naming threads. I find it fascinating to see how people develop their
>personnas and names.

OK My turn.  

I'm a Saxon Noble woman from 11-12th century Lincolnshire in England (I'm not
defining it any closer than that right now because I like to play with the 
costumes and culture of the whole period). I do have a small amount of Celt
in me from my mother.  As a Noble woman, I have a duty to be learned in all
facets of running and maintaining my home, including what to cook, feast 
making, hostessing, dressmaking, embroidery whatever so guess who's going to 
frequent the classes at Pennsic this year? ;-) 

I have a Norman first name, and a Norman "de" before my Saxon surname as is 
the growing custom in Saxon families of the period.  I find we still tend to
resent the Normans in our country, although we're slowly accepting them more 
- - a glimpse into the Elysant mindset there! ;-).  

Mundanely I am British and so had wanted a British persona.  My father was 
English, and my mother is Welsh/Yorkshire English/Irish Tinker.  My mundane
and SCA surname is Old English ("Holt" = wood, "ham" = enclosure, so
Holtham/Holtom = "dweller in the enclosure by the woods").  I decided Saxon
over Welsh because I was born and raised in Wales and wanted instead to 
explore my father's culture.  I might add a second 6th century Welsh persona
in the future though. 

So I based my persona around the family of 'Matilda de Holtham" who is the 
first female on record in the Oxford Dictionary of English Surnames with 
my mundane surname.  Maybe she's an ancestor for all I know as the family did 
come, in generations past, from the "east coast" of England. De Holtham is 
the old way of saying my mundane name Holtom.  I know nothing of her except 
she lived in Lincolnshire in 1200, and was related to an Alan de Holtham - I'm 
usually slightly before that date though.  

Elysant  
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