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Owine 7

Name

Summary

Owine 7 was a small landowners in south Cheshire with two manors assessed at under 1 hides and worth a little over 10 shillings. He may have been a radman.

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
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

The uncommon name Owine was recorded as holding two estates within four miles of one another in south Cheshire. Both places were given by Earl Hugh to his baron William Malbank, and we can be confident that only one person is involved.

At Basford, Owine was named first before two other holders, at Austerson second after Osmær ‘of Claverton’ (Osmær 9). The peasants enumerated at Basford in 1086 included three radmen, corresponding in number to the three men who held ‘manors’ there TRE, and perhaps identical with them, or at any rate their successors in tenure. Both Basford and Austerson were within 4 miles of Nantwich, the most important of the salt-manufacturing centres in Cheshire, and if Owine 7 did owe riding-services at Basford, they may have been connected with the earl of Mercia’s rights in the manufacture and trading of salt.

These places in Cheshire are too far from Bradwell (Derb.) for their holder to be identical with Owine 8.