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Redroger
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Gotobed
« on: Sunday 14 June 09 15:38 UTC (UK) »
I have this surname in my somewhat extensive Cambridgeshire tree. Does anyone know any detail of its origin please?
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Re: Gotobed
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 14 June 09 16:03 UTC (UK) »
I googled origin of name gotobed, and got

http://www.surnamedb.com/surname.aspx?name=Gotobed

http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/th/read/OLD-ENGLISH/2002-08/1030000835 (you have to read down a fair way)

David
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Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
Beds:   Cople: Luke/Spencer
            Everton: Hale
            Henlow: Cooper/Watts/Sabey
            Potton:  Merrill
            Southill: Faulkner/Litchfield/Sabey
            Woburn/Husborne Crawley: Surkitt
Hunts:  Gt Gransden: Merrill/Chandler/Medlock
            Toseland: Surkitt/Hedge/Corn         
Cambs:  Bourn: Bowd
             Eltisley: Medlock
             Graveley: Ford/Revell
Redroger
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Re: Gotobed
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 14 June 09 16:17 UTC (UK) »
Thanks David, According to the ONS surname website there were 225 Gotobeds in England and WAles in 2002. Now going to read what you found for me.

Roger
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Redroger
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Re: Gotobed
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 14 June 09 16:32 UTC (UK) »
David, Checked it out and am disappointed. Expecting something much more erotic! Checked out Luffman whilst I was on the surnames DB, and they say it only started in its present form in 1800 approx. Complete rubbish, I have it back in its present form into the 16th century, 1565, 1597 etc.So where they got the information from I don't know. Tried to register to correct, but from the speed of the site I would still be waiting. Thanks again.
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Re: Gotobed
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 23 September 09 04:42 UTC (UK) »
Hi there I have a Gotobed in my family tree as well. There was a William Gawtobedde of Sussex in 1332, so although I don't know where Gotobed comes from, perhaps it derives from this gentleman

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Re: Gotobed
« Reply #5 on: Wednesday 23 September 09 15:46 UTC (UK) »
Alijet, Why not check out the link given in reply No.1 above? DEspite my caveats about it, the site does give some useful information.
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Re: Gotobed
« Reply #6 on: Wednesday 23 September 09 16:20 UTC (UK) »
I seem to remember a Mrs Gotobed in an Enid Blyton book from my childhood days Smiley
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Re: Gotobed
« Reply #7 on: Wednesday 23 September 09 16:22 UTC (UK) »
Did Enid give her maiden name and details of her husband?
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Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
Beds:   Cople: Luke/Spencer
            Everton: Hale
            Henlow: Cooper/Watts/Sabey
            Potton:  Merrill
            Southill: Faulkner/Litchfield/Sabey
            Woburn/Husborne Crawley: Surkitt
Hunts:  Gt Gransden: Merrill/Chandler/Medlock
            Toseland: Surkitt/Hedge/Corn         
Cambs:  Bourn: Bowd
             Eltisley: Medlock
             Graveley: Ford/Revell
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Re: Gotobed
« Reply #8 on: Wednesday 23 September 09 16:43 UTC (UK) »
Probably totally irrelevant, but...

I remember a Gotobed shop, in Ely, in the '60's, selling either furniture, or cars.
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Re: Gotobed
« Reply #9 on: Wednesday 23 September 09 17:23 UTC (UK) »
Under 20 miles from my relative at Botisham, probably connected in view of the scarcity of the surname.
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Re: Gotobed
« Reply #10 on: Tuesday 13 October 09 13:48 UTC (UK) »
I was a Gotobed before I married..A few of our family actually had the name changed by deed poll as it was so disliked, I come from March in Cambridgeshire so not far away...looking back I think it a bit of a shame as it is an unusual name, at the time I was overjoyed as it lead to a lot of bullying etc at school.
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Re: Gotobed
« Reply #11 on: Tuesday 13 October 09 14:40 UTC (UK) »
Hi,

From Lower's "Dictionary of the Family Names of the United Kingdom" pub. 1860

"GOTOBED. O. Germ. Gott-bet, 'Pray to God.' Talbot's Engl. Etymol. Robert Gotobedde, Winchelsae, 20 Edw. I. Juliana Gotobedde, ibid. (Cooper). Notwithstanding Mr Talbot's conjecture, we may as well, perhaps, take this name au pied de la lettre, and assume it was given as a sobriquet to people more than ordinarily attached to their couch. A similar collocation of words forming a surname occurs in the H.R., viz.: Serlo Go-to-kirke, which was borne by one of the cottars of the hundred of Trippelowe, co. Cambridge, temp. Edw. I.-most probably in allusion to his constant attention to his public devotions."

H.R. refers to Rotuli Hundredorum - the Hundred Rolls (1273) which are the result of Edward I making inquiries about the state of his lands, revenues of the crown etc.

I think the Talbot will be referring to "English Etymologies" by W.H.F. Talbot.

No idea to what Cooper refers.

Strikes me that if you agree with Mr Lower's theory a modern equivalent would be Mr/Ms Couchpotato  Smiley 

Brie
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Re: Gotobed
« Reply #12 on: Tuesday 13 October 09 18:07 UTC (UK) »
When I lived in the Doncaster area I encountered another three word derived name "Godbehere". On the face of it self explanatory, unless there is more to it than its face value.
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Re: Gotobed
« Reply #13 on: Saturday 14 November 09 18:59 UTC (UK) »
there was a Gotobed who married into my Gilbert family. Not an ancestor, but I think he was from Littleport area.
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Re: Gotobed
« Reply #14 on: Saturday 14 November 09 19:38 UTC (UK) »
Right area, thanks Andrew
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