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Golding

Discussion of the name

Golding is an Old English masculine name, unrecorded before DB, formed as an -ing derivative of the element gold ‘gold’ or of a name featuring this element.

The only entry in the PASE corpus is for Golding 1, a catch-all for occurrences in DB.

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: Goldinc, Goldinus

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: Golding

  Phillimore edition: Golding

  Alecto edition: Golding

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 Middlesex	Phil. ref. 5,2	Vill Hatton	DB Spelling Goldinus	Holder 1066 Golding 'of Spelthorne'	Lord 1066 Harold, earl	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 unnamed abbot of Rouen La Trinité-du-Mont	1086 Subtenant Hertald de La Trinité	Fiscal Value 1.00	1066 Value 0.50	1086 Value 0.50	Confidence B	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 Goldinc	Holder 1066 -	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 William, king	1086 Subtenant Golding, burgess	Fiscal Value 0.00	1066 Value 0.00	1086 Value 0.00	Confidence B	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

People of this name

• Golding 2 - Golding ‘of Erehwon’ (Mdx) (fl. 1066)
• Golding 3 - Golding burgess ‘of Colchester’ (Essex), fl. 1086