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The BAXENDALE Name
Where does the name Baxendale come from?
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English (Lancashire): habitational name, probably an altered form of Baxenden, a place near Accrington, which is named with an unattested Old English word bæcstan ‘bakestone’ (a flat stone on which bread was baked) + denu ‘valley’. Middle English dale was sometimes substituted for Old English denu in northern place names.
The surname was first recorded in the early part of the 14th Century. On May 4th 1539, Richard Backsonden and Jane Nelson were married in Croston, Lancashire. Katherine Backstendeyle married a William Sutche in Ormskirk, on October 21st 1595, and on October 13th 1674, the marriage of Thomas Baxendale and Elizabeth Hunter took place, also in Ormskirk. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of William de Bakestonden, which was dated 1332, in the "Lay Subsidy Rolls of Lancashire", during the reign of King Edward 111, known as "The Father of the Navy", 1327 - 1377. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling
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