Mediaeval Hundlebys

'HUNDELBYS'

I've found that the above spelling is worth using in a Google search for the name. Not only is the name often misspelled - I do it myself - but it appears to have been the standard form up to the 1500s. I suppose it has to do with 'Hundulf'.

I see that John (or Johannes) Hundelby, a 'carvour', was admitted as a freeman of York in 1423.

Robert Hundelby registered a will in Lambeth in 1406, leaving most of his money to his father and mother (John and Cecilie), who lived in Alford.

And going further back, Ralph de Hundelby, of Benington, received a 'lay subsidy' of 11d in about 1332. Benington, of course, is only a few miles from Butterwick, my own ancestral home.