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Anyone have any information on the name Loveday? It's apparently Cornish and female.
There was an Old English name Leofdaeg meaning "dear day", which could have given rise to the name, but I'm curious as to how it came to associated with Cornish.
There was an Old English name Leofdaeg meaning "dear day", which could have given rise to the name, but I'm curious as to how it came to associated with Cornish.
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Loveday- baptismal name, "the son of Loveday" of the same class as Christmas, Nowell, etc. The font name lingered on as Lowdy in Cornwall, the last refuge of many old English favourites, till the 18th century, and is not yet extinct. "John Lovdesman" (John the servant of Loveday) occurs in the Hundred Rolls, 1273 in co. Norfolk.
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Here's a link to the surname meaning: http://snipurl.com/kbl3. There's nothing on a Cornish connection though, sorry.
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I have heard that in medieval England a loveday was a day for settling disputes
Loveday is a surname as well as a first name but I have no idea about the cornish connection
Loveday is a surname as well as a first name but I have no idea about the cornish connection
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I've got a feeling that it's a date name; wasn't a love-day one on which one's debts were cancelled or deferred? (My reference books and I are far apart ...)
Dunno about the Cornish connection ... whoever wrote The Little White Horse (Mary Stewart?) used it as a family fn and it seems to be set in a magical version of the West Country.
Dunno about the Cornish connection ... whoever wrote The Little White Horse (Mary Stewart?) used it as a family fn and it seems to be set in a magical version of the West Country.
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