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OC, your threads are always a tutorial in themselves, but the word Coppenhall especially grabbed my attention as my dad grew up there.
This summer I acquired a copy of a recent book, Crewe, a History by Susan Chambers, which is a Philimore book.
She says '' The Coppenhall entry in Domesday book...gives us the first account of the area.... 'Copehale', as it was called at the time, was before the conquest two manors jointly held by two Saxon freemen, Halden and Ulfac, who both probably held a couple of other estates though they were not large landowners. About these men we know nothing else: there is no indication that there was a lord's hall associated with the manors...''
She then goes on to say the land passed to the Norman William Malbank's family.
The Domeday book entry reads
''The same William ( ie Malbanc)holds Coppenhall. Healfdene and Wulfheah held it as two manors and were free.''
No further mention of Holdens or similar.
Susan Chambers seems to be an authority on the area. According to the jacket blurb she is a volunteer at Cheshire Record Office so you might be able to contact her through them
I hope this helps
Janexxx
This summer I acquired a copy of a recent book, Crewe, a History by Susan Chambers, which is a Philimore book.
She says '' The Coppenhall entry in Domesday book...gives us the first account of the area.... 'Copehale', as it was called at the time, was before the conquest two manors jointly held by two Saxon freemen, Halden and Ulfac, who both probably held a couple of other estates though they were not large landowners. About these men we know nothing else: there is no indication that there was a lord's hall associated with the manors...''
She then goes on to say the land passed to the Norman William Malbank's family.
The Domeday book entry reads
''The same William ( ie Malbanc)holds Coppenhall. Healfdene and Wulfheah held it as two manors and were free.''
No further mention of Holdens or similar.
Susan Chambers seems to be an authority on the area. According to the jacket blurb she is a volunteer at Cheshire Record Office so you might be able to contact her through them
I hope this helps
Janexxx
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