DESCENDANTS OF JOHN CHRISTIAN WOHLMANN
AND RELATED FAMILIES – DE CROISETTES, DANIEL, ANDREWS, MARRIOTT, CLARKE
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The IGI appears not to have recorded events for this family in East Anglia. There were many
Thickpenny families in the Wisbeach and Thetford registration area, so it looks as if tracing
this family through local parish records would not be too difficult. A Brandon website (http://www.brandon-heritage.co.uk) says this: W. G. Clarke tells us in his 1908 Guide to Brandon, the settlement "was anciently known as Brandona, Brantona, Braundon, Brandones Ferye, and Brand, the last-named being still used by many people in the district." The Oxford Dictionary of English Place Names explains the likely origin of the name as follows: "Brandon, usually 'hill where broom grows', OE bröm + dün", the earliest known spelling being in the 11th Century when the town, gradually expanding up and along the rising ground of the river valley, was indeed called Bromdun. If further proof were needed the site of Bromehill Fair and of Cardinal Wolsesy's priory of Bromehill (built by Sir Hugh de Plaiz c.1220) lay just over the parish boundary to the north of the present railway tracks and local people can attest to the fact that broom still thrives in the well-drained sandy soil of the area. |