![]() How much has been added or taken away from the manor?.Who held it in the time of King Edward?.as it was in 1086 (when the survey was taken).as it had been when it was granted by King William.as it had been on the last day of the reign of Edward the Confessor (5 January 1066) – this is abbreviated in Domesday as TRE.The commissioners asked how land had been held: For each property, each question was asked three times, to cover changes over time. The Domesday survey was carried out by commissioners holding sworn inquests in local courts, where they asked fixed questions of local men. For further information, see E 31 in Discovery, our catalogue. Little Domesday seems to be a survival of part of an earlier and fuller draft compiled from the original returns. Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex are in a separate volume, known as Little Domesday because of its smaller size. Most of the returns were entered into Great Domesday. ![]() The survey does not cover London (city), Winchester, Northumberland and Durham or much of north-west England the only parts of Wales included are certain border areas. Great Domesday, Little Domesday and the areas covered Watch our Spotlight On: Domesday video for a brief introduction to Domesday Book. Consult instead A J Camp’s My ancestors came with the Conqueror (Society of Genealogists, 1990) and Katharine Rohan’s Domesday people: A prosopography of persons occurring in English documents 1066-1166 (Vol 1) (Woodbridge, 1999). ![]() ![]() Domesday is written in Latin, although excellent translations are available (see below).ĭomesday is not usually an appropriate source if you are looking for a Norman ancestor. It is not a census of the population, and the individuals named in it are almost exclusively land-holders. It records who held the land and how it was used, and also includes information on how this had changed since the Norman Conquest in 1066. The survey was ordered by William the Conqueror at Christmas 1085 and undertaken the following year. Domesday Book is a detailed survey and valuation of landed property in England at the end of the 11th century. ![]()
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