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Mauua

Discussion of the name

Mauua is a name-form of uncertain gender and derivation. The solitary occurrence in DB refers to a ‘free man’ and implies that it is masculine, although the possibility that it is the same as the feminine name Mawa cannot be ruled out; in either case the derivation remains uncertain but is perhaps related to Old English māwan ‘to mow’ or to OE mæw ‘seagull’ (Redin 1919: 21, 100; von Feilitzen 1937: 325). Another possibility, noted by both Redin and von Feilitzen, is that the DB form Mauua is a scribal error for the OE masculine name Manna.

There is no entry for the form Mauua in the PASE corpus, although there are two for Mawa and several for Manna and its variant forms Manne, Monna and Monne.

Bibliography

Redin 1919: Studies on Uncompounded Personal Names in Old English (Uppsala: A.-B. Akademska Bokhandeln, 1919)

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: Mauua

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: Mauua

  Phillimore edition: Mawa

  Alecto edition: Mawa

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 Suffolk	Phil. ref. 36,3	Vill Brantham	DB Spelling Mauua	Holder 1066 Mauua 'of Brantham'	Lord 1066 Harold, earl	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Robert Gernon	1086 Subtenant William d'Aunay	Fiscal Value 0.05	1066 Value 0.05	1086 Value 0.05	Confidence D	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

People of this name

• Mauua 1 - Mauua ‘of Brantham’ (Suff.), fl. 1066