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Owine

Discussion of the name

The English name Owine was probably adapted from the Welsh name Owain (Owen) in the late Anglo-Saxon period. Another possible source is the revival of an old name known to Bede as that of the leader of the East Anglian household of St Æthelthryth (Etheldreda) who accompanied her to Northumbria, became a monk with St Chad at Lastingham, and accompanied him to Lichfield when he became bishop there (PASE: Owine 1; Bede, HE, iv.3, pp. 338–43; Farmer 1992: 373–4). Given the geographical locations of the people called Owine recorded in charters of the mid eleventh century (PASE: Owine 2–5) and in DB, a Welsh origin is the more likely. The name was easily adapted by turning the final syllable into the common OE English name-element wine ‘friend, protector, lord’ (von Feilitzen 1937: 415), though Owine was not meaningful in OE in the way that other dithematic personal names in –wine were.

Bibliography

Bede, HE:

Farmer 1992:

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: Ouuin, Ouuinus, Ouuine

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: Ouuine

  Phillimore edition: Owen (Ches.) and Owin (Derb.)

  Alecto edition: Owine

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 Cheshire	Phil. ref. 8,27	Vill Basford	DB Spelling Ouuin	Holder 1066 Owine ‘of Basford’	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Hugh, earl	1086 Subtenant William Malbank	Fiscal Value 0.33	1066 Value 0.08	1086 Value 0.08	Confidence -	Map
Shire Cheshire	Phil. ref. 8,31	Vill Austerson	DB Spelling Ouuinus	Holder 1066 Owine ‘of Basford’	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Hugh, earl	1086 Subtenant William Malbank	Fiscal Value 0.38	1066 Value 0.50	1086 Value 0.25	Confidence -	Map
Shire Derbyshire	Phil. ref. 7,8	Vill Bradwell	DB Spelling Ouuine	Holder 1066 Owine ‘of Bradwell’	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 William Peverel	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 0.67	1066 Value 0.33	1086 Value 0.50	Confidence -	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Subtenant in 1086

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 Essex	Phil. ref. B3a	Vill Colchester	DB Spelling Ouuinus	Holder 1066 -	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 William, king	1086 Subtenant Owine, burgess of Colchester	Fiscal Value 0.00	1066 Value 0.00	1086 Value 0.00	Confidence -	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

People of this name

• Owine 7 - Oswine ‘of Basford’ (Ches.), fl. 1066
• Owine 8 - Oswine ‘of Bradwell’ (Derb.), fl. 1066
• Owine 9 - Oswine burgess of Colchester, fl. 1086