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Re: What's Hantshaving??
« Reply #9 on: Tuesday 29 March 05 17:46 BST (UK) »
Apparently

'Hants - Hampshire (Hants derives from Hantshaving, the original name for this county)'.

Never knew that...

'"Hampshire" is often abbreviated in written form to "Hants" and which sometimes gives rise to puzzlement. The abbreviated form is derived from the Old English Hantum plus Scir (meaning a district governed from the settlement now known as Southampton) and the Anglo-Saxons called it Hamtunschire. At the time of the Domesday Book (1086) this was compressed to Hantescire'.


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Re: What's Hantshaving??
« Reply #10 on: Tuesday 29 March 05 18:08 BST (UK) »
If you do a "google search" on Hantshaving the general consensus appears to be in agreement with what has been said here
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Hants - Hampshire (Hants derives from Hantshaving, the original name for this county).

 ;D Its funny the (useless !) bits of information you pick up on rootschat

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Re: What's Hantshaving??
« Reply #11 on: Tuesday 29 March 05 19:23 BST (UK) »
I don't think it's useless info Falkyrn.  I have a friend who has lived in Hampshire for over thiry years, and for all those years, everytime I wrote Hants on the envelope's I sent her (no letter just envelopes  ;D) I wondered WHY it was Hants and not Hamps  ???  So thanks Arranroots next time I send her an envelope I shall inform her on the inside flap that Hants is short for Hantshaving ... I bet she doesn't know that either.

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Bates Hindley Lancs
Bowyer Altrincham Cheshire
Cunliffe Hindley
Hollingworth Hale Barnes/Mobberley Ches
Jones Salford/Altrincham
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Re: What's Hantshaving??
« Reply #12 on: Tuesday 29 March 05 19:24 BST (UK) »
Well, I'm always willing to learn!  ;)

I wondered what explanations were out there.

We all know that folk can struggle with the pronunciation of our counties, such as Gloucestershire, but then even the locals say

GLAWSTER!!

in The Shed at home matches!  ;D ;D ;D
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SOM: BIRD, BURT aka BROWN - HEF: BAUGH, LATHAM, CARTER, PRITCHARD - GLS: WEBB, WORKMAN, LATHAM, MALPUS - WIL: WEBB, SALTER - RAD: PRITCHARD, WILLIAMS - GLA: RYAN, KEARNEY, JONES, HARRY - MON: WEBB, MORGAN, WILLIAMS, JONES, BIRD - SCOTLAND: HASTINGS, CAMERON, KELSO, BUCHANAN, BETHUNE/ BEATON - IRELAND: RYAN (WATERFORD), KEARNEY (DUBLIN), BOYLE(DUNDALK)

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Re: What's Hantshaving??
« Reply #13 on: Tuesday 29 March 05 23:01 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Su on Tuesday 29 March 05 19:23 BST (UK)
I don't think it's useless info Falkyrn.  Su :o


 ;D Sorry, I was speaking there from a purely personal point insofar as I have no known connection (yet) with the said County .... but I was intrigued enough to search for it.

But no piece of information is ever useless

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Re: What's Hantshaving??
« Reply #14 on: Wednesday 30 March 05 11:39 BST (UK) »
Well,
just to toss a rock into this limpid pool, lets say those nasty wiking chappies,called it a Havn???
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Re: What's Hantshaving??
« Reply #15 on: Wednesday 30 March 05 11:43 BST (UK) »
Did the Vikings go to Hampshire?
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Re: What's Hantshaving??
« Reply #16 on: Wednesday 30 March 05 11:49 BST (UK) »
YES !!

DANELAW
also spelled DANELAGH, OR DANELAGA, the northern, central, and eastern region of Anglo-Saxon England colonized by invading Danish armies in the late 9th century.

In fact, the boundarieswere very flexible in those days; send out a marauding party, collar a bit of land, and it was all yours till somebody threw you off it.

So sometimes Hampshire (or parts thereof) would be part of the Danelaw, and sometimes not !
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Re: What's Hantshaving??
« Reply #17 on: Wednesday 30 March 05 23:06 BST (UK) »
The Vikings were tremendous navigators, Xphile: some say they also went to the Americas.  There was recently a project to analyse the DNA of folk in the Western Isles of Scotland to see which had Viking blood in them!

Shame about their spelling though!!

Hey Goggy - who you calling limpid  ??? ;D ;D ;D

Arranroots  ;)
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SOM: BIRD, BURT aka BROWN - HEF: BAUGH, LATHAM, CARTER, PRITCHARD - GLS: WEBB, WORKMAN, LATHAM, MALPUS - WIL: WEBB, SALTER - RAD: PRITCHARD, WILLIAMS - GLA: RYAN, KEARNEY, JONES, HARRY - MON: WEBB, MORGAN, WILLIAMS, JONES, BIRD - SCOTLAND: HASTINGS, CAMERON, KELSO, BUCHANAN, BETHUNE/ BEATON - IRELAND: RYAN (WATERFORD), KEARNEY (DUBLIN), BOYLE(DUNDALK)
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