Your probably all correct as to my futile search of the Cat*ley name. I find it
interesting.
I am not a genealogist. That is hard work and one must like puzzles.
I just have many questions as to all the name changes from Catlay.
I enjoy reading what I find in my searches and did learn a bit about the history of your
country the UK and things I did not know about Europe's history these past few days.
Much better than watching the history of present.
Sincerely, Patty
I gather this means we are not of the Catti Tribesmen so I should not follow that path~
(big smiles)
In a message dated 3/21/2003 6:51:13 PM Eastern Standard Time, timjhcat(a)tiscali.co.uk
writes:
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.