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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div><font color="#000000"><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">From: </font><font color="#000000"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span name="heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk"><a href="mailto:heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk">heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk</a></span> </font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span><<a href="mailto:heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk">heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk</a>><br>
</span>Subject: LL-L "Genealogy" 2013.04.08 (03) [EN]</font></font></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Thanks Ron, but it is exactly that farm whose origins I am<br>
researching!!!!<br> Originally<br> Gumbern is recorded in Peachley which is a district of Hallow/Grimley.<br> He / the family then seem to have moved to Grimley where a farm still<br> bears his name.<br><br>I am now plumbing the depths of the remarkable Worcester Cathedral<br>
library, located high above the nave in the cathedral, accessible only<br> through a tiny door and then by a steep spiral stone staircase but with<br> a very modern electronic entry system! The records of Hallow / Grimley<br>
go way back and the name Gumbern/us leaps out of the parchment as being<br> very unusual. Together with the recently located Gumbern Wyking and<br> others of that name I am trying to find evidence for the origin of his<br>
name. Was he a Danish settler in the time of Canute/Knut? Or a lone<br> Viking who fell in love and stayed on? Or is it a know Norman name<br> descended from the Scandinavian?<br><br>The Danes have a chequered history in Worcester. They raided the city<br>
and were repelled. One prisoner was skinned and his skin nailed to the<br> west door of the cathedral as a warning to any who might follow!<br><br> Then of course after Ethelred the Unready we had a Danish king in<br> Canute/Knut - so maybe he was a follower?<br>
<br> Or may be it is just an unusual Norman name?<br><br> Help!<br><br> best wishes<br><br> Heather</font></div></font><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font> </div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">----------</font></div>
<div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font> </div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">From: </font><font color="#000000"><span name="heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span name="Douglas Hinton">Douglas Hinton</span> </font><span><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:douglas.hinton@gmail.com">douglas.hinton@gmail.com</a>><br>
</font></span></span><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Subject: LL-L "Genealogy" 2013.04.08 (01) [EN]</font></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font> </div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">My opinion is that Gumborn means "child of Gum" or "children of Gum". Certainly the name can be derived from Danish, or Norwegian. "Barn" in danish means child and "Boern" means children. Douglas</font></div>
<div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font> </div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">----------</font></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font> </div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">From: </font><font color="#000000"><span name="heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk"><span name="Douglas Hinton"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span name="Luc Vanbrabant">Luc Vanbrabant</span> </font><span><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:lucv32@gmail.com">lucv32@gmail.com</a>><br>
</font></span></span></span><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Subject: LL-L "Genealogy" 2013.04.08 (01) [EN]</font></font></div><br><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Goeie dag,<br>
</font></div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I suggest also the following possibilities:<br></font></div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">gum: from gunth: battle (fight combative)<br></font></div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">born (bron): well<br>
</font></div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">bern: bear <br></font></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">So one can choose:<br></font></div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">gumbern: (gontbeer) strong as a bear in battle. <br>
</font></div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">gumborn: (gontborn) violent well<br></font></div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Le Wilde is Franco-Flemish: de wilde (the savage) </font><span lang="en"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span>It</span> <span>emphasizes</span> <span>the</span> </font><span><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">name again.<br>
</font></span></span></div><span lang="en"><span><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I think the definition with bear is most plausible.<br></font></span></span></div><span lang="en"><span><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Groetjes,<br>
</font></span></span></div><span lang="en"><span><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Luc Vanbrabant<br></font></span></span></div><span lang="en"><span><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Oekene</font></span></span></span><div>
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