Facts & Tales

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NAYLOR Facts & Tales The NAYLOR family can trace their roots back at least to 11th & 12th centuries. NAYLOR is Norman in origin, (Since the Normans invaded Britain around the 11th century, that would explain it) and first appeared in ancient medieval records. People were named according to their profession and NAYLOR/NAYLER/NAILER derives from the word noegle (nail).
That accent The Iclingas and Mercians Around 500 AD, the Iclingas founded the East Engle kingdom in the British Isles. These Angles gradually moved to the East Midlands. About 100 years after they first settled, they began to expand to take the Saxon and Anglian tribes of the Eastern Midlands into their territory. They became known as Mercians (Lords of the March). The Mercia region roughly covered what we now call the Midlands. At that time the accent would have been a mixture of the Germanic Anglo – Saxons and the British language already in use. When Mercia was divided by the invasion of the Vikings, who captured most of the Eastern area, the accent was split as well as the area. The accents strengthened as the counties were formed and became the West Midlands & East Midlands accents that we know (and love).
Old Sedgley
The Names of places and their meanings from Saxon Terms: (350AD - 1000AD) e.g. Ley in Sedgley means ‘clearing’ Bourne: Stream Burn: Stream Burg: Large village Croft: Small enclosure Cot: Small hut Delph: Ditch, dyke or stream Den(n): Pig pasture Eg; Ey; Ea; Eig: Island Fall: Area cleared of trees Fen: Fen Field: Field Ham: Village Hurst: Clearing Ing: People Lake: Lake Ley; Lea: Clearing Mere: Pool Moor: Moor Moss: Swamp Riding; Rod: Cleared land Stead: place Stoc: Summer pasture Stoke: 'Daughter' settlement Stow: Holy Place Ton; Tun: House;Farm Weald; Wold; High Woodland Wic; Wike: Farm; Group of huts Wood: Wood Worth: Fenced land Worthy: Enclosed land
Naylor Families Have any Naylor family stories? Please send them to me. lynnl58@yahoo.com
From Dudley to Gijon   Shortly after 1891 my Gt Grandmother, Alice Naylor (nee Currell) b1853 in Devon saw an advert in a newspaper seeking persons who could make "agricultural implements" to work in Spain. as he was a "shovel maker"(1891 census) she persuaded my Dudley born  Gt  Granfather John Naylor(1852,Shavers End) to apply which he duly did and shortly afterwards they set off for Espania!   They took three children, Kate (12), Maude(8) and Blanche(10) with them but left behind  Ruth(11) who stayed behind with her grandmother  Esther Naylor ,who with her husband Samuel kept the "Struggling Man" pub on Salop Street, Dudley for 30 years. At some point later Ruth used to pull pints standing on a wooden crate as she was so small!   John must have prospered because he was partner in the company Mouton,Naylor & Company of Gijon whose price list for 1895 has survived. My grandmother  (Maria) Victoria was born in 1895 as evidenced by her birth certificate issued by the consulate in Gijon & she was joined by her brother Willam Amelio in 1896 with little more than 13months between them!   My grandma maintained that Mrs Rimmel of the cosmetics family was a neibour ,indeed she said she was her godmother. We  were  also told of an amorous guitar playing Spaniard who serenaded under the balcony of one of the older girl's rooms and promised undying love if only he would marry her!   They had returned to Birmingham by 1901 but what an enterprise it must have been  for those times and what an adventure for ordinary working people from the" Black Country".     Phil Moran   August 2005