Richard Day of Worfield

Interestingly from the Book: Bye-Gones: Relating to Wales and The Border Counties. The surnames of Day and Tye are derived from the Welsh personal name of Dei, a term of endearment for David. Dee is the anglicized name of the Welsh word of Du. (Black), or Ddu...

In this book: Collections for a History of Staffordshire, we have the spelling for Day as Daa. Day is also written as Daa in the book: Bromley, Midlands Family history etc.

So is the origin of the Day family surname Dee or Daa?? This Daa family names also seems to align with the lineage of Richard Day of Worfield, as William Daa/Day do align with each other!!!

The search for the origins of he Day Family continues! We have Morgan Dee 1390 as the father of John Dee - interestingly there is record in 1384 of a John Daa, Knight - see this link :

https://books.google.ca/books?id=Rm1nAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA514&lpg=PA514&dq...

We know for sure that there was a Richard Day of Worfield that had not one but 2 sons who become Bishops in the 1500's.

/// Its interesting that the Dee/Day family line came into some prominence with Sir Nicholas Day of 1430 then Richard Day of Worfield 1477 and then his large family and not 1 but 2 sons that became bishops!! Also who was Sir Nicholas Day - (he is said to be the first generation to change his last name from Dee to Day) - ?I tend to assume the last name of the heritage of Richard Day of Worfield was actually Daa!

Besides just Robert Daa of about 1260 (son of Warine Le Grosvenor who is recorded to being alive in 1259) were there other people, probably family members with the last name Daa, highly likely as there is recordings of the names Richard Daa, Nicholas Daa, John Daa and William Daa. So now its just a matter of putting the pieces of this puzzle together!

http://www.archive.org/stream/collectionsfora11socigoog#page/n162/m...

• *important*** see pages 150 and 151. for a very interesting revelation!

see book: The Visitation of Shropshire, Taken in Year 1623, Volume 28

- see: Day of Worfield

https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/27097474/little-budworth-med...

http://www.jhdaysa.info/day/day_bishops2.html

https://books.google.ca/books?id=ad07AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA162&lpg=PA162&dq...

https://books.google.ca/books?id=AFXitTEl3DoC&pg=PA42&lpg=PA42&dq=w...

https://books.google.ca/books?id=h_sUAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA288&lpg=PA288&dq...

also see this link below for potential origins of the Day family name: http://www.archive.org/stream/collectionsfora11socigoog#page/n162/m...

• Reference: WikiTree Genealogy - SmartCopy: Sep 22 2016, 2:07:13 UTC

https://www.genealogieonline.nl/en/holloway-family-tree/P12020.php

Antiquities of Shropshire - page 197 - by Edward Lloyd (of Drenewydd) William de Brumley, son and heir of Roger de Brumley, tenet de rege in capite quoddam tenementum in Worfeld per servitium custodiendi quandam partem forestae regis de Morffe. 6th Edw. VI .f\ Roger Smith did homage for the Grange of Worfield. There were two gentlemen's families here, the Days and the Wavertons. A younger son of Richard Day, of Worfield, was a doctor in divinity, and dean of Windsor. Jane, the daughter and heir of John Waverton, married Sir George Bromley, ...

Richard Day had a very large family and had not 1, but 2 sons that became Bishops!! Rev. George Day 1501 to 1556, Bishop of Chichester from 1543. a rigid papist, loyal to the Pope and Catholic Church! and his younger brother Rev. William Day 1529 to 1596, Bishop of Wincester from 1595, he was a zealous Protestant! And there was also a son named John Day - could this be John Day the Printer?

an interesting read of all the stuff going on back then - see this link below: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/169897/1/AJChapman_ethesis.pdf

https://www.medievalsoldier.org and also see this book: Welsh Soldiers in the Later Middle Ages, 1282-1422 By Adam Chapman

https://books.google.ca/books?id=PgKSouk9fHUC&pg=PA1575&lpg=PA1575&...

https://books.google.ca/books?id=ad07AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA162&lpg=PA162&dq...