Jheromyn1 le2 Bordar3 ben4 Mikiel5

 

1. The source for this name is Documents pour servir à l'histoir du commerc des Pays-Bas avec la France jusqu'à 1585: Tome II Actes notariès Bordeaux 1470-1520. Found online at: http://www.sit.wisc.edu/~sfriedemann/names/bordeaux.htm

 

2. French for ‘the’. Usage in England prior to 1290 confirmed by Jewish Naming Convention in Angevin England by Eleazar ha-Levi. Found online at:

http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/names/jewish.html

 

3. Smallholding cottager of lesser standing than villein but better off than cottar. Found online at:

http://www.netserf.org/Glossary/

Source: Reynolds, Susan. An Introduction to the History of English Medieval Towns. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977) 197-201

 

4. Jewish for ‘son of’. Also in Jewish Naming Convention in Angevin England by Eleazar ha-Levi. Found online at:

http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/names/jewish.html

 

5. The source for this name is Documents pour servir à l'histoir du commerc des Pays-Bas avec la France jusqu'à 1585: Tome II Actes notariès Bordeaux 1470-1520. Found online at: http://www.sit.wisc.edu/~sfriedemann/names/bordeaux.htm