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The Spalding name |
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 The
Spalding family originated in Flanders, the origin of many East Anglians of Britain.
The surname Spalding appeared quite early in English history derived from the
town of Spalding in Lincolnshire. The first written record concerning Spalding was a charter issued in 716 A.D. by King Athelbald to the monks of Crowland Abbey. Another charter written in 868 A.D. referred to Spaldelying. Spalding began as a division town of the fens and marshes of East Anglia, and was founded at the point where a road ran over the low country to the Wash. "Yng" is a Celtic word for fen or low meadow-land. Spalding was one of the Saxon divisions of the county known as "the Spalda." The Saxon suffix "ing" from the Teutonic "ingoz" denotes sons of a family or tribe, thus, the people who lived in Spalding were known as the "Spaldingas" or the Spalding tribe. In the doomsday book in 1085/6, Spalding is spelled "Spallinge." In Latin, Spall or Spald means "the shoulder." The town of Spalding of saxon derivation means literally: "the tribe who live at the shoulder (of marsh land)." |
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known to have held land in South Holland in the 7th century. The "Doomsday Survey,"
showed Holland to be an area of large villages concentrated in the fens. The
town became a market centre with two important industries: salt making and fisheries.
The Manor of Spalding before the Norman Conquest belonged to the king's geld
(a tax paid to the Crown by landholders). William Duke of Normandy and King of England confiscated most land belonging to Anglo-Saxon nobles, but didn't touch land belonging to any of his feudal tenants in Spalding. The Manor of Spalding which had belonged to Algar, Earl of Mercia, was conferred upon the Duke's nephew, Ivo Talbois. The first recorded Spalding name was Ralph de Spalding, 1273. Judge Charles Warren Spalding, author of "The Spalding Memorial," obtained a copy of an ancient deed naming him. When Edward III in 1327 ordered a wool merchant to be elected to Parliament for York, William de Spalding, son of Richard de Spalding, was elected for the borough or county. The Parliament of 1376 held at Westminster held both a William and John Spalding. In later centuries, Spaldings went north into Scotland and west into central England, moving into both Suffolk and Norfolk. They settled around Bury St. Edmunds, Framlingham, and in the valley of the Waveney River. The first recorded Spalding in the American colonies was Edward Spalding, his wife, son and daughter. They were living at Elizabeth City, Virginia, in Feb 1623. Edward and his family left Jamestown Virginia and sailed to New England where they became the progenitors of the large New England Spalding family. The text on this page is taken from an essay by Pat Doster. www.linkstolincs.co.uk Specialising in family history research in Lincolnshire Back to Spalding Links |