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Eyeling, Middlesex
« on: Friday 04 April 14 07:34 BST (UK) »
I have an old Will - 1748 - where Eyeling, Middlesex is mentioned. Where is this? I suppose it might be Ealing but as the family was from Stepney and surrounds this does not seem likely to me. [I'm not that familiar with London [Aussie]].
Does anyone have any ideas?
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Re: Eyeling, Middlesex
« Reply #1 on: Friday 04 April 14 07:50 BST (UK) »
Ealing is what I first thought too, but it's not very close to Stepney. In what context was Eyeling mentioned in the will?

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Re: Eyeling, Middlesex
« Reply #2 on: Friday 04 April 14 07:56 BST (UK) »
Hi, I think I posted this in the wrong forum  - sorry! However,  it was mentioned in the first sentence as the place the Will's testator, Elizabeth Demetrius, was from.
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Re: Eyeling, Middlesex
« Reply #3 on: Friday 04 April 14 08:02 BST (UK) »
Boundaries may have changed too, so what was Midlesex then, may not be Middlesex now.
Have you tried tracing Elizabeth? Her surname sounds Greek - maybe she married Mr Demetrious?  :)

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Re: Eyeling, Middlesex
« Reply #4 on: Friday 04 April 14 08:08 BST (UK) »
No charmer from the Greek Isles for her, she was a spinster. I'm sorry I spelled her surname incorrectly in the post. She was more than likely from the Demetrius family [De Meter[en] who were Dutch emigrants to London from the 1500's.
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Re: Eyeling, Middlesex
« Reply #5 on: Friday 04 April 14 08:26 BST (UK) »
Ah, OK then?  :) proximity to Stepney is probably irrelevant if she was the testator anyway.

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Re: Eyeling, Middlesex
« Reply #6 on: Friday 04 April 14 11:14 BST (UK) »
Ealing is local to us.
The current spelling became the norm in the early 19th century. Have seen various spellings from earlier - Yling being one, but haven't seen Eyeling before, but seems close enough to be a possibility.
Would need more background info to be sure.

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Re: Eyeling, Middlesex
« Reply #7 on: Friday 04 April 14 11:34 BST (UK) »
The Demetrius family, in general, lived in Spitalfields and St Dunstan Stepney, Ratcliffe and close surrounds. The spelling used for Eyeling is Eyling in another case in the Will [it is not the original but the later archived Court of Canterbury transcriptions]. Eliz. does leave a legacy to a yeoman of Eyeling, which suggests a more rural area, so probably Ealing is where she was. Thanks for your responses. :)
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Re: Eyeling, Middlesex
« Reply #8 on: Friday 04 April 14 12:05 BST (UK) »
Another instance of Eyling (in this case Great Eyling) in Middlesex:

http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=C10457549
Ayr: Barnes, Wylie
Caithness: MacGregor
Essex: Eldred (Pebmarsh)
Gloucs: Timbrell (Winchcomb)
Hants: Stares (Wickham)
Lincs: Maw, Jackson (Epworth, Belton)
London: Pierce
Suffolk: Markham (Framlingham)
Surrey: Gosling (Richmond)
Wilts: Matthews, Tarrant (Calne, Preshute)
Worcs: Milward (Redditch)
Yorks: Beaumont, Crook, Moore, Styring (Huddersfield); Middleton (Church Fenton); Exley, Gelder (High Hoyland); Barnes, Birchinall (Sheffield); Kenyon, Wood (Cumberworth/Denby Dale)
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