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Tumi

Gender: Male

Author: CPL

Editorial Status: 4 of 5

Discussion of the name

Tumi is a masculine Old Danish name which probably originated as a short form of names in þor– and a second element starting with m–. It was well established in Denmark before being adopted in England after the Viking settlements (von Feilitzen 1937: 388; Adigard des Gautries 1954: 152–3; Fellows Jensen 1968: 293).

There was an OE name spelled Tuma or Tumma in the seventh and eighth centuries, but no conclusive evidence that it remained in use in the later Anglo-Saxon period (Redin 1919: 72; Searle 1897: 460). The moneyer at York in the 970s whose dies were engraved with the spelling tvmma and tvmme (PASE: Tuma 1–2) is likely to have had the Danish name Tumi. Apart from him, there is no-one of the name currently recorded in PASE apart from the two pre-Conquest landowners discussed here.

Bibliography

Adigard des Gautries 1954: J. Adigard des Gautries, Les noms de personnes scandinaves en Normandie de 911 à 1066, Nomina Germanica 11 (Lund, 1954)

Fellows Jensen 1968: Gillian Fellows Jensen, Scandinavian Personal Names in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire (Copenhagen: I Kommission hos Akademisk Forlag, 1968)

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: Tumi; Tuini, Tumme

Forms in modern scholarship:

von Feilitzen head forms: Tumi

Phillimore edition: Tumi; Tuini (at Witton, Worcs.)

Alecto edition: Tumi

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 Worcestershire	Phil. ref. 23,5	Vill Selly Oak	DB Spelling Tumi	Holder 1066 Tumi, thegn of King Edward at Droitwich	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 William fitzAnsculf	1086 Subtenant Robert 'the man of William fitzAnsculf'	Fiscal Value 0.50	1066 Value 0.50	1086 Value 0.38	Confidence A	Map
Shire Worcestershire	Phil. ref. 24,1	Vill Witton	DB Spelling Tuini	Holder 1066 Tumi, thegn of King Edward at Droitwich	Lord 1066 Edward, king	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 William fitzCorbucion	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 2.00	1066 Value 3.00	1086 Value 3.00	Confidence A	Map
Shire Worcestershire	Phil. ref. 26,7	Vill Stone	DB Spelling Tumi	Holder 1066 Tumi, thegn of King Edward at Droitwich	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Urse d'Abetot	1086 Subtenant Herlebald 'of Cookhill'	Fiscal Value 3.00	1066 Value 1.00	1086 Value 0.75	Confidence A	Map
Shire Yorkshire	Phil. ref. C12	Vill York	DB Spelling Tumme	Holder 1066 Tumi 'of York'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 William, king	1086 Subtenant Robert Malet	Fiscal Value 0.00	1066 Value 0.00	1086 Value 0.00	Confidence A	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value