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Dachelin

Discussion of the name

Dachelin is a Continental Germanic masculine name, most probably a Romanic diminutive form of a name with tac ‘day’ as the first element (Forssner 1916: 58).

Bibliography

Forssner 1916: Thorvald Forssner, Continental-Germanic Personal Names in England in Old and Middle English Times (Uppsala, 1916)

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: Dachelin

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: Dachelin

  Phillimore edition: Dachelin

  Alecto edition: Dachelin

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 Dorset	Phil. ref. 33,2	Vill Nyland	DB Spelling Dachelin	Holder 1066 Dachelin 'of Nyland'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Thurstan fitzRolf	1086 Subtenant Ranulph 'the man of Thurstan fitzRolf'	Fiscal Value 0.67	1066 Value 0.33	1086 Value 0.33	Confidence B	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

People of this name

• Dachelin 2 - Dachelin ‘of Nyland’ (Dors.), fl. 1066