Patty,
Whilst I admire your keenness which is grand, I think that you are rather
overstepping the mark by delving into place names in UK starting with "cat".
You ask about Catsfield in Sussex. Yes OK but why not Catfield in Norfolk?
There are over 44 places here that I know of that are prefixed "Cat" and
many carry the "wild cat" explanation as to origin.
As I have said before on rootsweb, in early England there was still much
forestation and wild cats a plenty and so there must have been thousands of
woods containing wild cats and thus nodoubt hundreds of seperate woods could
well have become known as Catley.
Regards Tim----- Original Message -----
From: <Breezybray(a)aol.com>
To: <CATLEY-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 2:40 PM
Subject: [CAT*LEY] Re: [CAT*LEY] Re: [CAT*LEY] Re: [CAT*LEY] Monasticon :
Gilbertines
Not sure what I'm searching for Tim and not knowing the UK at all
proves
to be a challenge :-)
I think I'm looking to see where the Cattley-Cattley roots began
after
Adam & Eve...
Do we have a connection to Catsfield?
Patty
http://www.secretsofthenormaninvasion.com/part11.htm
*Further confusion is caused by those who do not know the area by the name
of the
Broomham manor because what was Broomham in 1066 is now where the
main road passes through Catsfield. In consequence whilst Catsfield is
listed as a separate manor in Domesday this is off the main road to Pevensey
on the Crowhurst - Henley Down - Catsfield Road starting in Crowhurst on the
far side of the inlet from where the invading army was positioned. Support
for this route for the army, via Telham, comes from the fact that Catsfield
manor, which lies away from the thoroughfare retained a relatively high
value when the manor on the main road, Broomham, was wasted
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