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From: "David/Jenny Hatcher" <>
Subject: Re: Name Endings
Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2000 10:49:12 +1000


Julie

DRENG was Old Danish for "free tenant", thus the origin of such place names
in Yorkshire as Dringhouses and Dringhoe. There was another word for
"freeman", and that was LEYSINGI which provides origin of such place names
as Lazenby in Yorkshire. (To complicate matters LEYSINGI was also adopted by
Danes from its original meaning as a personal name ).

David
Melbourne

-----Original Message-----
From: Julie <>
To: <>
Date: Saturday, 9 September 2000 4:44
Subject: Name Endings


>My ex-husband's surname is DRING. He always told me that it was of Viking
origin and they originally hailed from East Anglia. A Dring apparently was
a position between an earl and a thane (whatever that was!)
>
>Regards
>
>Julie in Dorset
>Researching LUTON, WISEMAN, PITCHER(S), WHITE, CROPLEY and McCARTHY.
>
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