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Burrer

Discussion of the name

The Domesday spelling Burrer is unintelligible as it stands. Von Feilitzen suggested that it was an error for Burred, representing the masculine OE name Burgræd (1937: 213), but perhaps more likely is an error for Burret, another spelling of Burgræd, since –t was arguably more likely than –d to be misread as –r. The name Burgræd was always spelled Burred in the Northamptonshire folios of DB, while Burred (× 2) and Burret (×2) are among seven variant spellings in Bedfordshire.

In fact neither misreading is likely to have been an easy mistake to make: among all the pre-Conquest personal names in GDB and LDB there was no other misreading of –red or –ret as –rer. For that reason, the name is discussed here under its DB spelling rather than as a variant of Burgræd.

Bibliography

von Feilitzen 1937: Olof von Feilitzen, The Pre-Conquest Personal Names of Domesday Book, Nomina Germanica 3 (Uppsala: Almqvist and Wiksells, 1937)

Forms of the name

Spellings in Domesday Book: Burrer

Forms in modern scholarship:

von Feilitzen head forms: Burrer

Phillimore edition: Burrer

Alecto edition: Burrer

Distribution map of property and lordships associated with this name in DB

List of property and lordships associated with this name in DB

Holder 1066

Shire	Phil. ref.	Vill	DB Spelling	Holder 1066	Lord 1066	Tenant-in-Chief 1086	1086 Subtenant	Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value	Conf.	Show on Map
Shire Shropshire	Phil. ref. 4,11,17	Vill Preston upon the Weald Moors	DB Spelling Burrer	Holder 1066 Burrer 'of Preston upon the Weald Moors'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Roger, earl	1086 Subtenant Ralph de Mortimer	Fiscal Value 1.00	1066 Value 2.00	1086 Value 1.00	Confidence A	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

People of this name

• Burrer 2 - Burrer ‘of Preston upon the Weald Moors’ (Salop.), fl. 1066