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Waso 2

Name

Summary

Waso 2 held a small estate in north-eastern Cornwall TRE that paid tax for 1 ferling (although 1 virgate was there) and was valued at 5s.

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 Cornwall	Phil. ref. 5,8,5	Vill Trefreock	DB Spelling Waso	Holder 1066 Waso 'of Trefreock'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Robert, count of Mortain	1086 Subtenant Berner 'of Hornacott'	Fiscal Value 0.25	1066 Value 0.25	1086 Value 0.15	Confidence A	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

Waso 2’s holding was small, even if allowance is made for its apparent TRE under-assessment in Domesday Book.  It was the only estate held TRE by someone called Waso and shows no link to the person or persons of that or a similar name who were holding land in Oxfordshire and Surrey TRW. 

The Domesday Book form Trerihoc suggests that the precise location of Waso 2’s estate is far more likely to have been at Trefreock (from Old Cornish tre(f)-*frieuc, probably ‘estate, farmstead associated with someone called *Frieuc’) as suggested in the Alecto edition than at nearby Trevigue as suggested in the Phillimore edition.

Bibliography

Padel 1985: O. J. Padel, Cornish Place-Name Elements (Nottingham, 1985)