Where did the name Puddephatt originate from?

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Where did the name Puddephatt originate from?

Answer 1

I tawt i taw a Puddephatt a creeping up on me........:)

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Answer 2

This interesting and unusual name is of early medieval English origin and is a nickname surname for either a butcher who specialised in puddings or a stout (barrel shaped) person. The derivation is from the Germanic "Pud(d)", to swell or bulge, which is found in pudding and the Olde English pre 7th Century "faet", vessel or vat. In the modern idiom, the variants include Pud(d)ifoot, Puddefoot, Puddephat(t), and Puttifoot. The following examples illustrate the name development after the first recording (see below): Herbert Pudifot (1212, Curia Rolls of Yorkshire); Richard Pudifed (1213, Book of Seals of Oxford); Geoffrey Putifat (1221, Suffolk); and Robert Podifat (1288, Letter Books). Amongst the sample recordings found in London are, Ann Puddephatt, christened on November 11th 1676, at St. Botolph without Aldgate, and the marriage of Bennett Puddephatt and Esther King, in February 1747, at St. Paul's, Covent Garden. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Roger Pudifat, which was dated 1188, in the "Pipe Rolls of Cambridgeshire", during the reign of King Henry 11, known as "The Builder of Churches", 1154 - 1189.

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Puddiphat is another variation, found in Hertfordshire during 1800s.

Answer 3

atlanta, georgia

Answer 4

If it is asserted that the surname Puddephatt originated with runaway serfs who had deformed feet because their lords had driven metal spikes through them, or had iron feet because they had lost a foot from the same cause, then some evidence really should be provided that this did happen, that it happened in the period when serfs were adopting hereditary surnames, and that it happened sufficiently often to have given rise to the surname. Saying there's no evidence that it didn't happen isn't enough.

My remarks about medieval society were naturally not based only on my own research. In fact they were based principally on the research of the many other historians who have studied manorial society and surnames during the entire medieval period, using original records - studies which my own work requires me to be familiar with. I won't go through all the points in debate again; suffice it to say that anyone who reads the historical literature of the last few decades will find little to support the idea that rural manors at the time when surnames were being acquired by serfs were 'concentration camps' - the more we study the actual records of manors the more we see a quite different picture.

Incidentally, before I posted my comments I showed the spiked feet story to a couple of professors of medieval history who have worked on manorial records for many records. And this weekend I also mentioned it to some of the other historians attending a conference at Nottingham University on 'Slavery, Freedom and Unfreedom in the Middle Ages' (including one who gave a paper at the conference discussing the extent of lords' power over their tenants in thirteenth century England). None of them thought it had any foundation in fact (one professor, who has published quite a bit specifically on serfdom, called it 'total fantasy').

Matt Tompkins