Haimo de St. Clair was never mentioned in the Suffolk Domesday, but there is much about land ownership of which Domesday does not tell us. “Haimo de St. Clair is never mentioned in the Suffolk Domesday, but the IE (Inquisitio Eliensis) (7oa2, 273, 207a2) shows him to have been a well-endowed tenant of Bishop Odo […]
Open Domesday shows someone named Bretel (no last name) holding land called Trevillyn in 1066, which was a settlement in Domesday Book, in the hundred of Tybesta and the county of Cornwall. That’s big news. But is it the same Bretel? The image below is from Domesday. No last name of this Bretel is mentioned. See […]
Rand Greubel wrote me to give me a quick update. “It seems that what Mike found was a transcription of letters and other items comprising a set of notes from research conducted by the American genealogist/historian Everett Stackpole in the early 20th Century. The question is, where exactly did Stackpole get his information?” Click Here […]