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From: "Dick Chandler" <>
Subject: Re: [HADDOW] Origin of the HADDOW surname
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 12:16:29 -0700
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That's interesting, Christine - I had discounted HADDEN (and HADDON) as
variants of HADDOW in Lancashire, but in the light of your experience I had
better take another look.

My wife and I visited Haddo House and met the charming Lady Aberdeen.
Regrettably we did not have time to stay in that area overnight, which is a
shame because Terry Waite (the Archbishop of Canterbury's envoy to Lebanon
to try to secure the release of hostages, who was himself taken hostage and
held captive by terrorists for almost 4 years) was going to speak that
evening in the chapel of Haddo House, which would have made the experience
even richer.

Thanks for your input, Christine. Any other Haddow variants encountered by
other family historians?

Dick Chandler in Salmon Arm, British Columbia, Canada


----- Original Message -----
From: "christine" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, August 16, 2009 5:41 AM
Subject: Re: [HADDOW] Origin of the HADDOW surname


> This is essentially the same information that I uncovered when I
> researched
> the name for our Haddow line. At points in our extended branch, the name
> was
> "Hadden" or "Haddo"
>
> Christine in Ontario Canada
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [mailto:] On
> Behalf Of Dick Chandler
> Sent: Sunday, August 16, 2009 1:00 AM
> To:
> Subject: [HADDOW] Origin of the HADDOW surname
>
> I would value opinions on the following:
> Like many British surnames, the Scottish name Had[d]ow originates from the
> name of a habitation - Haddo in the former county of Aberdeen (now part of
> the Grampian region) [per "A Dictionary of Surnames" by Patrick Hanks and
> Flavia Hodges]. The origin of that name is said to be the Middle English
> for "half", plus the Gaelic dabhach, which is a measure of land equivalent
> to four ploughgates (so the name means "two ploughgates"). A plough
> worked
> by eight oxen was capable of bringing 104 acres into tillage in a year. A
> ploughgate was therefore the name that was given to 104 acres of arable
> land, and a "half dabhach" or "hadabhach" (being half of four ploughgates)
> is therefore 2 x 104 = 208 acres of land. So it could reasonably be said
> that the name Haddow means 208 acres.
>
> The earliest known bearer of the name (Had[d]ow) is said to be Alanus de
> Haldawach, who was excommunicated in 1383. So the name Had[d]ow is
> considered by experts on family names to have evolved from Hadabhach
> through
>
> Haldawach. "A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue Volume 2 D-G" has
> alternative spellings and pronunciations of "dabhach", including "dauch"
> and
>
> "daach". Given these variations, the name can become Hadauch or Hadaach.
> The reason I am interested in possible variations of the Haddow surname is
> that my step-children have a British ancestor William Haddow of
> Pennington,
> Lancashire (probably the Pennington one mile south-west of Ulverston
> [whose
>
> parish church is St Michael and the Holy Angels], rather than the
> Pennington
>
> near Wigan [whose parish church is Christ Church in the ancient parish of
> Leigh] who married Agnes Boulton of Baycliff (on the coast, three miles
> south of Ulverston) at the Parish Church of Saint Cuthbert in
> Aldingham-in-Furness (on the coast, one mile south of Baycliff) on 21st
> February 1767. During his life, William Haddow's name appeared at
> different
>
> times as Hadnow, Haddah, Haddey and Haddaw, and he himself may have been
> the
>
> son of a William Haddock. His descendants finally settled to using the
> surname Hadath or Haddath, though one line has continued to use the name
> Haddow to this day. It is vital to remember that, prior to 1800, most
> people could not read or write, so they would rely totally on the sound of
> a
>
> name, not its spelling.
>
> I would be very interested to hear from anyone else who has encountered
> surname variants like this, or who has other opinions on the origin of the
> Haddow surname.
>
> Dick Chandler in Salmon Arm, British Columbia, Canada
>
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