Some more thoughts on the surname Shelvey. When my dad was alive he use to tell me about some of the Shelvey history, most of which has checked out as true. He said that one of our ancestors came over with William the Conqueror (which I was told why some of our ancestors have William as a name sake) and fought in the Battle of Hastings. He would tell me we are Anglo-Saxon and one of our distant relative’s name is in the Domesday Book. There is a Shelve mentioned in the book. In the City of Kent there was an Estselve: Bishop of Bayeux (Odo, Earl of Kent) and an Old Shelve Farm (that looks like to this day still exists). Odo was the half-brother of William the Conqueror, and was, for a time, second in power after the King of England. Bishop Odo of Bayeux fought at Hastings (1066) which I am wondering if this is what my dad was talking about. My dads and mine middle name is Robert which the Normans introduced this name to Britain. Some more info on -ey. Romney comes from DANISH, from the Danelaw, which held Kent early-on. Place names ending in ey are from the Viking term for island. Also, the Old English root rum, which became room, is from Old Norse term for open. The location is a grassy island in a river in Kent, hence the name. The history of the location is that was so named by the Danes. The name and term were absorbed into Old English with many, many other Norse words, which we still use today. Canterbury, for instance, in Saxon heartland, is a Norse term - bury being the red flag for Danelaw place names. Jersey, Guernsey, and many other islands where the Danes set up camp during their invasion carry the typical ey ending for island. It could also be that Old Shelve farm was settled by one of our distant relatives whose name we have today, Shelvey.
Posted on: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 23:22:38 +0000
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