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Richard Munday
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Richard | Report | 29 Mar 2005 14:29 |
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I'm led to believe that the surname 'Munday' originates from a time when landworkers, or serfs (people who worked for a lord of the manor) worked over a weekend and were paid for their work on a monday. Anyone trying to trace the origins of the name, start with the two villages of Ewelme and Aston Rowant in Oxfordshire, the graveyard in Ewelme is crammed with the name Munday on headstones, and there is also Mundays still living there, I traced a line back to 1630 coming from Aston rowant and ending up in Hammersmith, a lot of them moved into the cities at the time of the industrial revolution due to work. I also found in and edition of heraldry and crests that the name came over to this country at the time of the norman conquest and originated from brittany in northern France |
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