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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Nottinghamshire => Topic started by: carlT on Monday 31 July 23 16:06 BST (UK)
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I have just come across this record of my 5 times Gt Grandfather Guiliemus Adlington, c 25 March 1616 at Lenton Priory, Nottingham.
His father is shown as Hugonis Adlington.
I an curious about the forenames at this time ?
Might Hugonis be an immigrant to our Country or am I barking up the wrong tree
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"Hugo was used for Hugh [q.v.] in early documents in Latin, with appropriate case endings. The form Hugonis is the possessive case = "of Hugh"."
So maybe it was William, son of Hugh. Quite a few early registers are in Latin. Hugh is a name I've seen quite a few times in this time period.
Queenie :)
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Those names are the modern "William" and "Hugo"
Ever since Rome conquered and ruled most of the world Latin has been used for official documents.
If you look at British history you'll find the church and religion was important. Even Catholic archbishops had their own armies !
All courtiers spoke Latin until one French King decided the English court should use French as the official language. Then eventually (can't recall which king but he cut himself off from the French court and ruled English should be the official court language).
The Catholic Vatican and Rome ruled unhindered until Luther, Knox and others publicly proclaimed their protestant religions. Then King Henry the Eighth introduced his protest idyll of the "Church of England".
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Thank you
I was really overthinking this one really.
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Here's a useful list of English names and their 'Latinised' equivalents.
https://www.from-ireland.net/irish-names/latin-names-in-english/