Back to Roger de
Busli of Tickhill or Ernold de Builli
of Kimberworth
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Roger and Ernold were certainly brothers
despite the slight difference in their last names. The concept of
'family names' which required people in the same male line to have the
same last name only developed later. In Roger and Ernold's time
people were generally known by where they were from, by a physical
characteristic or by their occupation. So you could get
John the Carpenter son of John Large who was the brother of William of
Bygville. The Norman nobles who held England after 1066
were a bit more helpful to family historians as they did tend to use the
name of their main family holding as their surname although the spelling
of that name could vary greatly according to however the clerk who
recorded the name thought it sounded.
The earliest original document that I know of
for this family recorded Roger in its Latin text as Rogerius de Buslei
and that Roger received tithe payments from the people of the 'ville de
Buslei'. Ernold, who also held a share in the tithe payments, is simply
written as 'Hernaldi'.
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